- dregs; draff; pickled in wine; rotten; messy; ruined
- escape route; retreat route; communication lines to the rear; alternative course of action; room for maneuver
- to keep watch; to do sentry duty; to be on patrol
- to get on a horse; to mount
- to hesitate
- luggage; CL:件[jian4]
- horse's back; (traditional Chinese architecture) roof with a low-slung curved ridgelines and geometric shapes on the upper gable walls at the ends of the roof ridges
- 工夫 gōng fū: 工夫 gong1 fu1: (old) laborer工夫 gōng fu: 工夫 gong1 fu5: period of time (may be months, or mere seconds); spare time; skill; labor; effort
- column; file (formation of people) (CL:列[lie4],路[lu4]); PLA army corps (1946–1949)
- dealings; contacts; to go back and forth
- to insert; to take turns, alternate; to interweave; to interlace; subplot; interlude; episode; (military) to thrust deep into the enemy forces
- to hack to death; to kill with an ax
- to pay no attention to; not to mind
- to cut up; to break up
- (idiom) to have one's hands full managing one's own affairs; too busy to spare time for anything extra
- to play chess
- minute (i.e. extremely small); infinitesimal
- to repair; to patch; to mend; to make up for; to fill (a vacancy); to supplement
- to fall to the ground
- to press on towards; to close in on; to approach; to draw near
- to inspire; to encourage; to hearten; to boost (morale)
- strange person; eccentric
- to die in combat
- 磨 mò: 磨 mo4: grindstone; to grind; to turn round磨 mó: 磨 mo2: to rub; to grind; to polish; to sharpen; to wear down; to die out; to waste time; to pester; to insist
- total defeat of an army (idiom); fig. a complete wipeout
- mournful (sound)
- to do one's utmost; with all one's might; at all costs; (to work or fight) as if one's life depends on it
- insane; mad; wild
- horse
- marksmanship
- to surge up violently (of ocean, river, lake etc); turbulent
- to burst; to break through; to topple
- bamboo flute; CL:管[guan3]
- to fly past; to sweep past (at close range); (of a spacecraft) to do a flyby (of a celestial body)
- fighter (aircraft)
- to form into columns; to organize into teams; formation (of ships or aircraft)
- to dive down fast; to swoop down