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serviceman / soldier / military personnel
HSK 5
soldier / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
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  *兵* | 兵* | *兵
soldiers / a force / an army / weapons / arms / military / warlike / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
fighter / soldier / warrior / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
ordinary soldier
tongue / CL: 個|个 / enemy soldier captured for the purpose of extracting information
HSK 6
there are no poor soldiers under a good general (idiom)
Israeli soldiers
soldiers / troops
officers and soldiers
(military) officers and soldiers / officers and men / (old) government troops
HSK 7-9
military strategist in ancient China / military commander / soldier
workers, peasants, and soldiers / the proletariat
lit. strong soldiers and sturdy horses (idiom) / fig. a well-trained and powerful army
commander without any soldiers; (fig.) leader without a team; solo entrepreneur
traveler (on a long journey) / participant in an expedition / garrison soldier / new recruit
child soldiers / juvenile militia
mutual support between the military and the people – specifically, support provided by local people and authorities for the military, and preferential treatment of the families of soldiers, on the one hand, and the military's support for the government and care for the general public, on the other
insignificant soldier (idiom) / a nobody / nonentity
artillery soldier / gunner
soldier (from the two components of the character) (derog.)
soldier / noncommssioned officer (NCO)
to serve in the army / to be a soldier
lit. to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom) / fig. to raise an army; to recruit new staff
to enlist enemy or rebel soldiers by offering amnesty / to bring to negotiated surrender
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  *卒* | 卒* | *卒
soldier / servant / to finish / to die / finally / at last / pawn in Chinese chess
Qing troops; Manchu soldiers
boss / sir (person with a leading role in an organization) / (after a surname) high ranking commander in the PLA / (Qing dynasty) high ranking government official / (old) courteous term used by the general populace in addressing a rank-and-file soldier or police officer
(coll.) soldier boy
foot soldier / minor figure / a nobody / (chess) pawn
HSK 7-9
(idiom) (of soldiers) highly disciplined, not committing the slightest offense against civilians
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  *枚* | 枚* | *枚
classifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs, fingerprints etc (more formal than 個|个) / classifier for bombs, missiles, satellites etc / (on product packaging) classifier for flat items (from Japanese "mai") / (old) stick used as a gag to prevent soldiers from talking while sneaking up on the enemy
HSK 7-9
counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation
to enlist enemy or rebel soldiers by offering amnesty
the “five red categories” (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. poor and lower-middle peasants, workers, revolutionary soldiers, revolutionary cadres, and revolutionary martyrs
Lei Feng (1940–1962), a soldier celebrated by the Chinese government from 1963 onward as a model of selflessness and devotion to the Communist Party
(old) combat robe / soldier's uniform / (sports) team jersey / team shirt
a soldier's pay and provisions
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  *骑* | 骑* | *骑
(Tw) saddle horse / mounted soldier
elite soldiers, ample provisions (idiom); well-prepared forces / preparations for war are in an advanced state
guard (i.e. group of soldiers)
elite soldiers / a crack force
disabled soldier / serviceman wounded in action
communist bandit (i.e. PLA soldier (during the civil war) or Chinese communist (Tw))
The Good Soldier Švejk (Schweik), satirical novel by Czech author Jaroslav Hašek (1883-1923)
guard / garrison soldier
volunteer soldier / CL:
fellow soldier / comrade / companion / intimate friend
lit. every tree or bush an enemy soldier (idiom); fig. to panic and treat everyone as an enemy / to feel beleaguered
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  *屯* | 屯* | *屯
to station (soldiers) / to store up / village
HSK 7-9
tomb of the unknown soldier
caligae (sandals worn by Roman soldiers in ancient times) / (fashion) Roman-style sandals / ankle-strap sandals
pawn (i.e. foot soldier) / servant / lackey (of malefactor)
soldiers / troops
soldier (serving alternate watch)
infantry / foot / infantryman / foot soldier
soldier / private (army)
commando / special forces soldier
mythical animal that brings luck and wards off evil, having head of a dragon and lion's body, often with hoofs, wings and tail / also written 辟邪 / fig. valiant soldier
to garrison; to defend (a frontier) / soldier garrisoned at a frontier
well versed in letters and military technology (idiom); fine scholar and soldier / master of pen and sword
to forbid sb to go out / to confine to one location (e.g. student, soldier, prisoner, monk etc) / to ground (as disciplinary measure) / to gate / to curfew / restriction on movement / ban on visiting a place / out of bounds / off limits / caveat
shrimp soldiers and crab generals (in mythology or popular fiction, the army of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea) / useless troops (idiom)
fellow soldier
low-ranking soldier; (by extension) low-level employee
casualties / wounded soldiers
Manchurian soldier
to put in detention (a soldier, a pupil)
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  *伍* | 伍* | *伍
squad of five soldiers / to associate with / five (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
individual soldier / (literary) isolated military unit, cut off from reinforcements
loose and disorganized soldiers / stragglers / fig. a loner
army riffraff / army ruffian / soldier of fortune
pay and provisions for soldiers
jacket worn esp. by soldiers in former times, with large insignia on the front and back indicating unit affiliation
to put down weapon and let soldiers rest (idiom); to relax from fighting
(Tw) retired soldier; veteran
red bandit (i.e. PLA soldier (during the civil war) or Chinese communist (Tw))
underworld soldier; ghost soldier
(classical) (of soldiers etc) resolute in the face of adversity
soldier (in battle)
(Tw) retired soldier; veteran (abbr. for 榮譽國民|荣誉国民)
old soldier; veteran / veteran (sb who has a lot of experience in some domain)
counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation
soldier / large army / powerful army / (old) large-scale war
garrison soldier
soldiers at the city walls (idiom); fig. at a critical juncture
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  *士* | 士* | *士
member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker
lit. straggling and disbanded soldiers (idiom); fig. disorganized uncoordinated action
Manchurian foot soldier
strong soldiers / make the military powerful (political slogan)
General Lü Meng 呂蒙|吕蒙 of the southern state of Wu (idiom); model of self-improvement by diligent study (from unlettered soldier to top strategist of Wu)
to troop (of soldiers etc) / convoy
a changeover of personnel / a new shift / (lit.) replacement for soldier on leave for the melon-picking season
child soldier
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
soldier's copper saucepan, used for cooking food by day and for sounding the night watches during the hours of darkness (in ancient times)
rebel soldier
with horses and soldiers gagged (idiom) / (of a marching army) in utter silence
soldier ant / dinergate
celestial soldier / (old) imperial troops / (Tw, jocular) clumsy army recruit / (more generally) bungler / screw-up

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