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soldier / CL: 個|个
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  *兵* | 兵* | *兵
soldiers / a force / an army / weapons / arms / military / warlike / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
(military) officers and soldiers / officers and men / (old) government troops
HSK 7-9
infantry / foot / infantryman / foot soldier
mercenary / hired gun
artillery soldier / gunner
parade guards (usually spaced out along parade routes) / example / model / pacesetter
troops appearing suddenly (in a raid or ambush)
lit. every tree or bush an enemy soldier (idiom); fig. to panic and treat everyone as an enemy / to feel beleaguered
new (army) recruit
to muster troops / (fig.) to gather forces
old soldier; veteran / veteran (sb who has a lot of experience in some domain)
cavalry
private (army)
to dispatch troops
elite troops
people's militia / militia / militiaman
to drill troops / army training
individual soldier / (literary) isolated military unit, cut off from reinforcements
guard / bodyguard
soldier / large army / powerful army / (old) large-scale war
to lead troops
to withdraw troops / to retreat
enlisted sailor in navy
lit. military tactics on paper (idiom) / fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice / armchair strategist / idle theorizing / cf Zhao Kuo 趙括|赵括 leading an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰|长平之战 in 260 BC
paratrooper
military police
to reduce troop numbers / disarmament
relief troops; reinforcements
to levy troops / recruitment
massive military force
army deserter
to train troops
celestial soldier / (old) imperial troops / (Tw, jocular) clumsy army recruit / (more generally) bungler / screw-up
to serve in the army / to be a soldier
to recruit soldiers
reinforcement
to review troops / military parade
Red Guards (Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976)
to deploy troops / to mass troops
military engineer
to retreat / to withdraw troops / to recall troops / fig. to finish work / to wind up / to call it a day / used with negatives: the task is far from over
to send troops
(literary) to raise an army; to dispatch troops
hidden troops / ambush
lit. peaceful measures before using force (idiom) / fig. diplomacy before violence; jaw-jaw is better than war-war
in a state of war
Qing troops; Manchu soldiers
to bring the entire nation to arms (idiom)
to send troops
to beat the gong to recall troops (idiom); to order a retreat
to reinforce / to increase troop numbers / reinforcements / extra troops
troops deployed to mislead the enemy
bugler / trumpeter (military)
to call for reinforcements / to bring in troops
underworld soldier; ghost soldier
strong soldiers / make the military powerful (political slogan)
archer / infantry armed with crossbow
to dispatch an army / to send troops
rebel soldier
routed troops; defeated and dispersed troops
mercenary / hired gun
guard / garrison soldier
superfluous troops
commando / special forces soldier
a scout / spy
paratroopers
private first class (army rank)
to cease fire / armistice / rested troops
(military) messenger / orderly
army orderly
sentinel
child soldier
lit. rich country, strong army (idiom); slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times / Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei)
workers, peasants, and soldiers / the proletariat
there are no poor soldiers under a good general (idiom)
volunteer soldier / CL:
lit. frontline troops / leader / trailblazer / pacesetter
stretcher bearer (military)
loose and disorganized soldiers / stragglers / fig. a loner
PLA military personnel who specialize in literary or artistic pursuits
Manchurian soldier
to put down weapon and let soldiers rest (idiom); to relax from fighting
same as 綠營|绿营, Green standard army, standing infantry during Qing dynasty, originally formed from Ming and other Chinese army units
Green standard army, standing infantry during Qing dynasty, originally formed from Ming and other Chinese army units
to work vaguely then retreat (idiom); sloppy and half-hearted / half-baked
to work vaguely then retreat (idiom); sloppy and half-hearted / half-baked
lit. having given away a bride, to lose one's army on top of it (idiom) / fig. to suffer a double loss after trying to trick the enemy


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