- voluntary
- neck; collar; to lead; to receive; classifier for clothes, mats, screens etc
- new (army) recruit
- allowance
- sufficient; full; to fill; to serve as; to act as; to act falsely as; to pose as
- able-bodied man (capable of fighting in a war)
- to work tirelessly; to give one's all; to slave away; to throw away one's life; to sacrifice oneself (usu. for an unworthy cause)
- (idiom) unable to withstand a single blow; to collapse at the first blow
- army; main forces
- the first time; for the first time
- ordinary soldier
- to flee in disorder
- court; imperial household; dynasty
- to issue; to proclaim; to enact (laws, decrees etc)
- to arrest; to catch a criminal
- to abandon; to relinquish; to discard; to throw away
- 旗 qí: 旗 qi2: flag旗 qí: 旗 qi2: banner; flag; (in Qing times) Manchu (cf. 八旗[Ba1 qi2]); administrative subdivision in inner Mongolia equivalent to 縣|县[xian4] county; CL:面[mian4]
- (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er; -ist; (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously); (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term); (old) (used at the end of a command); (old) this
- a wooden word-by-word reading
- to promise; to consent (to do sth)
- any; whatever; whichever
- to expose; to bring to light; to disclose; revelation
- army deserter
- monetary reward
- to lead to; to create; to cause; to bring about
- zealotry; fanatical; feverish
- to hunt and arrest (fugitives); to track down and arrest; a manhunt
- ingenious; clever; ingenuity; artifice
- to draw up a plan; to map out a program; a plan; a program
- 好 hào: 好 hao4: to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to好 hǎo: 好 hao3: good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello
- track (for trains etc); orbit (of a satellite); (fig.) a person's established path in life; desired trajectory (of a business or other endeavor); (audio engineering) track; (quantum mechanics) orbital
- in case (sth happens); if; once (sth happens, then...); when; in a short time; in one day
- a suspect
- the sound of a bell
- your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific); to erupt; to begin abruptly
- to urge; to press; to prompt; to rush sb; to hasten sth; to expedite
- to set up; to put in place; (math.) given; suppose; if
- checkpoint (for taxation, security etc); (fig.) barrier; hurdle; red tape; CL:道[dao4]; Taiwan pr. [guan1ka3]
- bridge (lit. and fig.)
- to occupy; to hold
- to poke; to jab; to give (sb) a nudge; to prod; to disclose; to reveal
- 刺 cī: 刺 ci1: (onom.) whoosh刺 cì: 刺 ci4: thorn; sting; thrust; to prick; to pierce; to stab; to assassinate; to murder