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| | major event / major political event (war or change of regime) / major social event (wedding or funeral) / (do sth) in a big way / CL: 件, 樁｜桩 | HSK 5 |
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| | the not-very-distant past / modern times, excluding recent decades / (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) / capitalist times (pre-1949) | HSK 4 |
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| | war chariot (archaic) / rook (in Chinese chess) / rook (in chess) | |
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| | World War II | |
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| | there can never be too much deception in war / in war nothing is too deceitful / all's fair in war | |
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| | First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) | |
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| | Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武｜孙武 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法｜孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書｜武经七书 | |
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| | know yourself, know your enemy (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法｜孙子兵法) | |
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| | art of war / military strategy and tactics | |
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| | war crime | |
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| | weapons of war / arms | HSK 7-9 |
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| | world war | |
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| | Goran Hadžić (1958-2016), Croatian Serb leader until 1994, indicted war criminal | |
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| | Jinguashi, town in Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan, noted for its historic gold and copper mines, used as a prisoner-of-war camp by the Japanese (1942-1945) | |
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| | the Warring States period (475-221 BC) | |
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| | “Art of War”, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書｜武经七书, written by Sun Tzu 孫子｜孙子 | |
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| | (China's) War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945) | |
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| | World War Two | |
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| | the Hundred Schools of Thought, the various schools of thought and their exponents during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC) | |
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| | Korean War (1950-1953) | |
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| | surname Chu / abbr. for Hubei 湖北省 and Hunan 湖南省 provinces together / Chinese kingdom during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (722–221 BC) | |
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| | war / to wage war | |
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| | King Huiwen of Qin 秦國｜秦国, ruled 338-311 BC during the Warring States Period | |
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| | The Thirty-Six Stratagems, a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, and in civil interaction / all the possible schemes and stratagems | |
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| | the whole front (in a war) / the whole length (of a road or railway line) | |
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| | civil war | |
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| | Tolstoy (name) / Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910), great Russian novelist, author of War and Peace 戰爭與和平｜战争与和平 | |
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| | (Tw) Star Wars | |
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| | World War II | |
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| | Horizontal Alliance, clique of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家｜纵横家 during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC) | |
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| | the School of the Military, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家｜诸子百家 of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC) | |
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| | the Warring States period (475-221 BC) / Japanese Warring States period (15th-17th century) | |
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| | north China navy (esp. the ill-fated Chinese navy in the 1895 war with Japan) | |
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| | Chinese Civil War (1927–1949) | |
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| | World War I (1914-1918) | |
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| | the nine schools of thought, philosophical schools of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC), viz Confucians 儒家, Daoists 道家, Yin and Yang 陰陽家｜阴阳家, Legalists 法家, Logicians 名家, Mohists 墨家, Diplomats 縱橫家｜纵横家, Miscellaneous 雜家｜杂家, and Agriculturalists 農家｜农家 | |
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| | World War Two | |
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| | prolonged war / war of attrition | |
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| | the Spring and Autumn (770-476 BC) and Warring States (475-221 BC) periods | |
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| | war of attrition | |
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| | South Korea (Republic of Korea) / (historical) Han, one of the Seven Warring States 戰國七雄｜战国七雄 | |
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| | Sino-French War (1883-1885) (concerning French seizure of Vietnam) | |
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| | to fight / to wage war | |
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| | the three Punic Wars (264-146 BC) between Rome and Carthage | |
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| | weaponry / to hold (a weapon) / to wield / to rely on / to depend on / war / battle | |
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| | cold war / (fig.) strained relationship / to be barely on speaking terms | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to know the enemy and know oneself (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War") | |
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| | School of Yin-Yang of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) founded by Zou Yan 鄒衍｜邹衍 | |
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| | the Legalist school of political philosophy, which rose to prominence in the Warring States period (475–221 BC) (The Legalists believed that social harmony could only be attained through strong state control, and advocated for a system of rigidly applied punishments and rewards for specific behaviors.) / a Legalist | |
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| | Pacific War between Japan and the US, 1941-1945 | |
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| | to be weary of war / (fig.) to lose one's desire to continue to fight (sports match, legal battle etc) | |
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| | neither war nor peace | |
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| | war situation | |
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| | to catch an enemy off guard with a surprise attack (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法｜孙子兵法) | |
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| | to change sides in a war / turncoat | |
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| | war / hostilities / fighting | |
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| | American War of Independence (1775-1783) | |
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| | another name for Han Fei 韓非｜韩非, Legalist philosopher (c. 280-233 BC) / Han Feizi, book of Legalist Philosophy authored by Han Fei 韓非｜韩非 during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC) | |
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| | social upheaval caused by war or famine etc | |
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| | Star Wars | |
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| | Nanchang Uprising, 1st August 1927, the beginning of military revolt by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War | |
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| | war of aggression | |
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| | lit. to go to war without just cause (idiom) / to act without justification | |
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| | to take prisoner / prisoner of war | |
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| | forced labor / corvée / obligatory task / military service / to use as servant / to enserf / servant (old) / war / campaign / battle | |
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| | chaos of war | |
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| | Huaihai Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War, considered the determining battle of the war | |
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| | Mohist School of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), founded by the philosopher 墨子 | |
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| | the Spring and Autumn (770-476 BC) and Warring States (475-221 BC) periods / Eastern Zhou (770-221 BC) | |
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| | people's war, military strategy advocated by Mao whereby a large number of ordinary citizens provide support in a campaign | |
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| | war-gaming; simulation of a military operation | |
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| | trade war | |
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| | lit. peaceful measures before using force (idiom) / fig. diplomacy before violence; jaw-jaw is better than war-war | |
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| | Sino-Vietnamese War (1979) | |
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| | Thucydides (c. 455 - c. 400 BC), Greek historian, author of the History of the Peloponnesian War | |
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| | Seven Powerful States of the Warring States, namely: 齊｜齐, 楚, 燕, 韓｜韩, 趙｜赵, 魏 and 秦 | |
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| | a time of military urgency / war crisis | |
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| | war of resistance, especially the war against Japan (1937-1945) | |
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| | war of words | |
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| | able-bodied man (capable of fighting in a war) | |
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| | a book on the art of war | |
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| | to fight a battle / to go to war | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning | |
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| | knowing the enemy and yourself will get you unscathed through a hundred battles (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War") | |
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| | to declare war | |
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| | Zhang Zizhong (1891-1940), Chinese National Revolutionary Army general during the Second Sino-Japanese War | |
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| | danger spot / Jedi (in Star Wars) | |
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| | arms and confusion (idiom); turmoil of war | |
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| | capital of Wei 魏 during Warring states / CL: 根 | |
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| | Zou Yan (305-240 BC), founder of the School of Yin-Yang of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) | |
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| | war on terrorism | |
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| | Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria (1863-1914), heir to the Hapsburg throne, whose assassination in Sarajevo led to World War I | |
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| | prepared against war / to prepare for war / warmongering | |
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| | Korean War (dating from North Korean invasion on 25th Jun 1950) | |
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| | lit. you fight, I snatch (idiom); to compete fiercely offering no quarter / fierce rivalry / tug-of-war | |
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| | Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) | |
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| | to fight / fight / war / battle | |
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