三军 三軍 sān jūn (in former times) upper, middle and lower army / army of right, center and left / (in modern times) the three armed services: Army, Navy and Air Force syn 北洋水师 北洋水師 běi yáng shuǐ shī north China navy (esp. the ill-fated Chinese navy in the 1895 war with Japan) 水陆师 水陸師 shuǐ lù shī army and navy (in Qing times) 陆海空軍 陸海空軍 lù hǎi kōng jūn army, navy and air force 陆海空军 陸海空軍 lù hǎi kōng jūn army, navy and air force 巡逻 巡邏 xún luó to patrol (police, army or navy) syn 中尉 zhōng wèi lieutenant (navy) / first lieutenant (army) / subaltern 下士 xià shì lowest-ranked noncommissioned officer (e.g. corporal in the army or petty officer, third class in the navy) 陆海空三军 陸海空三軍 lù hǎi kōng sān jūn army, navy, air force 中国人民解放军海军 中國人民解放軍海軍 zhōng guó rén mín jiě fàng jūn hǎi jūn Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) 常胜军 常勝軍 cháng shèng jūn Ever Victorious Army (1860-1864), Qing dynasty army equipped and trained jointly with Europeans and used esp. against the Taiping rebels 绿营 綠營 lǜ yíng Green Standard Army, standing infantry during Qing dynasty, originally formed from Ming and other Chinese army units 调兵遣将 調兵遣將 diào bīng qiǎn jiàng to move an army and send a general (idiom) / to deploy an army / to send a team on a task syn 北洋军 北洋軍 běi yáng jūn north China army, a modernizing Western-style army set up during late Qing, and a breeding ground for the Northern Warlords after the Qinghai revolution 绿旗兵 綠旗兵 lǜ qí bīng same as 綠營|绿营[lu:4 ying2], Green standard army, standing infantry during Qing dynasty, originally formed from Ming and other Chinese army units 绿营兵 綠營兵 lǜ yíng bīng Green standard army, standing infantry during Qing dynasty, originally formed from Ming and other Chinese army units 长平之战 長平之戰 cháng píng zhī zhàn Battle of Changping of 260 BC, at which the Qin army 秦軍|秦军[Qin2 jun1] encircled and annihilated a Zhao army of 400,000 红军 紅軍 hóng jūn Red Army (1928-1937), predecessor of the PLA / (Soviet) Red Army (1917-1946) syn 集团军 集團軍 jí tuán jūn army grouping / collective army 正规军 正規軍 zhèng guī jūn regular army / standing army 关东军 關東軍 guān dōng jūn Japanese Kwantung army (or Kantō army), notorious for numerous atrocities in China during WWII 元军 元軍 yuán jūn Mongol army / army of Yuan dynasty 项英 項英 xiàng yīng Xiang Ying (1898-1941), communist general involved in forming the New Fourth Army 新四軍|新四军[Xin1 si4 jun1], killed in 1941 during the New Fourth Army incident 皖南事變|皖南事变[Wan3 nan2 Shi4 bian4] 兵痞 bīng pǐ army riffraff / army ruffian / soldier of fortune syn 复活的军团 復活的軍團 fù huó de jūn tuán the Resurrected Army (CCTV documentary series about the Terracotta army) 南斯拉夫国防军 南斯拉夫國防軍 National Yugoslav Army / Yugoslav People's Army 野战集团军 野戰集團軍 field army / army 大兵 dà bīng soldier / large army / powerful army / (old) large-scale war syn 海空军 海空軍 hǎi kōng jūn navy and air force 海军上校 海軍上校 hǎi jūn shàng xiào captain (= UK and US Navy equivalent) 海军少校 海軍少校 hǎi jūn shǎo xiào lieutenant commander (= UK and US Navy equivalent) 海军中校 海軍中校 hǎi jūn zhōng xiào commander (= UK and US Navy equivalent) 横须贺 橫須賀 héng xū hè Yokosuka (port and navy base in the Tokyo bay) 彩虹行动 彩虹行動 cǎi hóng xíng dòng the two mass scuttling operations carried out by the German navy: the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919 and Operation Regenbogen, the scuttling of U-boats in 1945 海军 海軍 hǎi jūn navy syn 水师 水師 shuǐ shī navy (in Qing times) syn 水军 水軍 shuǐ jūn (archaic) navy / person employed to post messages on the Internet (abbr. for 網絡水軍|网络水军[Wang3luo4 shui3jun1]) syn 水兵 shuǐ bīng enlisted sailor in navy syn 船舰 船艦 chuán jiàn navy vessel / (coast guard) patrol boat 藏青色 zàng qīng sè navy blue 海军大校 海軍大校 hǎi jūn dà xiào commodore (= US Navy equivalent) 海军蓝 海軍藍 hǎi jūn lán navy blue syn 丁汝昌 dīng rǔ chāng Ding Ruchang (1836-1895), commander of the Qing North China Navy 伴侣号 伴侶號 bàn lǚ hào HMS Consort, Royal Navy destroyer involved in 1949 Amethyst incident on Changjiang 加拿大皇家 jiā ná dà huáng jiā HMCS (Her Majesty's Canadian Ship) / prefix for Canadian Navy Vessels 加拿大皇家海军 加拿大皇家海軍 jiā ná dà huáng jiā hǎi jūn Royal Canadian Navy 沈葆祯 沈葆禎 shěn bǎo zhēn Shen Baozhen (1820-1879), Qing Minister of the Navy, founded Fuzhou Naval College 船政學堂|船政学堂[Chuan2 zheng4 Xue2 tang2] in 1866 海豹部队 海豹部隊 hǎi bào bù duì United States Navy SEALs 琅威理 láng wēi lǐ Captain William M Lang (1843-), British adviser to the Qing north China navy 北洋水師|北洋水师 during the 1880s 皇家海军 皇家海軍 huáng jiā hǎi jūn Royal Navy (UK) 紫石英号 紫石英號 zǐ shí yīng hào HMS Amethyst, Royal Navy corvette involved in a 1949 gunfight with the PLA on the Changjiang 船政大臣 chuán zhèng dà chén Minister of Navy during Qing times 荷兰皇家海军海道测量局 荷蘭皇家海軍海道測量局 Royal Netherlands Navy Hydrographic Service 海军部 海軍部 Department of the Navy 海洋导航卫星系统 海洋導航衛星系統 Navy Navigation Satellite System 辽宁号 遼寧號 liáo níng hào Liaoning, the first aircraft carrier commissioned into the PLA Navy (commissioned in 2012) 宙斯盾战斗系统 宙斯盾戰鬥系統 zhòu sī dùn zhàn dòu xì tǒng Aegis Combat System (weapons system developed for the US Navy) 网络水军 網絡水軍 wǎng luò shuǐ jūn "Internet Navy" / paid Internet posters / astroturfers 沈葆桢 沈葆楨 shěn bǎo zhēn Shen Baozhen (1820-1879), Qing Minister of the Navy, founded Fuzhou Naval College 船政學堂|船政学堂[Chuan2 zheng4 Xue2 tang2] in 1866 千军万马 千軍萬馬 qiān jūn wàn mǎ magnificent army with thousands of men and horses (idiom) / impressive display of manpower / all the King's horses and all the King's men syn 兵强马壮 兵強馬壯 bīng qiáng mǎ zhuàng lit. strong soldiers and sturdy horses (idiom) / fig. a well-trained and powerful army syn 支 zhī to support / to sustain / to erect / to raise / branch / division / to draw money / classifier for rods such as pens and guns, for army divisions and for songs or compositions syn 富国强兵 富國強兵 fù guó qiáng bīng 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) syn 三大纪律八项注意 三大紀律八項注意 sān dà jì lǜ bā xiàng zhù yì the Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention, a military doctrine issued in 1928 by Mao Zedong for the Red Army, which included a number of injunctions demanding high standards of behavior and respect for civilians during wartime 幽明 yōu míng the hidden and the visible / that which can be seen and that which cannot / darkness and light / night and day / wisdom and ignorance / evil and good / the living and the dead / men and ghosts 幽明 yōu - míng the hidden and the visible / that which can be seen and that which cannot / darkness and light / night and day / wisdom and ignorance / evil and good / the living and the dead / men and ghosts 都督 dū dū (army) commander-in-chief (archaic) / provincial military governor and civil administrator during the early Republic of China era (1911-1949 AD) 军政 軍政 jūn zhèng army and government 粮草 糧草 liáng cǎo army provisions / rations and fodder syn 兵马俑 兵馬俑 bīng mǎ yǒng figurines of warriors and horses buried with the dead / Terracotta Army (historic site) syn 朱德 zhū dé Zhu De (1886-1976), communist leader and founder of the People's Liberation Army 新四军 新四軍 xīn sì jūn New Fourth army of Republic of China, set up in 1937 and controlled by the communists 张学良 張學良 zhāng xué liáng Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001) son of Fengtian clique warlord, then senior general for the Nationalists and subsequently for the People's Liberation Army 招兵买马 招兵買馬 zhāo bīng mǎi mǎ lit. to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom) / fig. to raise an army / to recruit new staff syn 整风 整風 zhěng fēng Rectification or Rectifying incorrect work styles, Maoist slogan / cf Rectification campaign 整風運動|整风运动, army purge of 1942-44 and anti-rightist purge of 1957 合编 合編 hé biān to compile in collaboration with / to merge and reorganize (army units etc) syn 段祺瑞 duàn qí ruì Duan Qirui (1864-1936), commander of Beiyang Army under Yuan Shikai, then politician and powerful warlord 捻军 捻軍 niǎn jūn Nian Army, leading a peasant rebellion against the Qing dynasty in Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu and Anhui 1851-1868, at the same time as the Taiping Rebellion further south 杯酒释兵权 杯酒釋兵權 bēi jiǔ shì bīng quán to dismiss military hierarchy using wine cups / cf Song founding Emperor Song Taizu 宋太祖 holds a banquet in 961 and persuades his senior army commanders to go home to their provinces 糺 jiǔ army (used during the Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties) 虾兵蟹将 蝦兵蟹將 xiā bīng xiè jiàng shrimp soldiers and crab generals (in mythology or popular fiction, the army of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea) / useless troops (idiom) syn 曹刚川 曹剛川 cáo gāng chuān Cao Gangchuan (1935-), former artillery officer, senior PRC politician and army leader 丹瑞 dān ruì General Than Shwe (1933-), Myanmar army officer and politician, leader of the military junta 1992-2011 聂耳 聶耳 niè ěr Nie Er (1912-1935), musician and composer of the PRC national anthem March of the Volunteer Army 義勇軍進行曲|义勇军进行曲 皖南事变 皖南事變 wǎn nán shì biàn New Fourth Army Incident of 1940, involving fighting between the Nationalists and Communists 圆明园 圓明園 yuán míng yuán Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace, destroyed by the British and French army in 1860 丹瑞将军 丹瑞將軍 dān ruì jiāng jūn General Than Shwe (1933-), Myanmar army officer and politician, president of Myanmar (Burma) from 1992 全党全军 全黨全軍 quán dǎng quán jūn the (communist) party and the army together (idiom) 兵马未动，粮草先行 兵馬未動，糧草先行 bīng mǎ wèi dòng , liáng cǎo xiān xíng before the troops move, fodder and provisions go first (idiom) / logistics comes before military maneuvers / an army marches on its stomach 姆拉迪奇 mǔ lā dí qí Mladić (name) / Ratko Mladić (1942-), army chief of Bosnian Serbs 1965-1996 and convicted war criminal 日英联军 日英聯軍 rì yīng lián jūn Anglo-Japanese allied army (intervention during Russian revolution and civil war 1917-1922) 澳新军团 澳新軍團 ào xīn jūn tuán Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) 艾森豪威尔 艾森豪威爾 ài sēn háo wēi ěr Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), US army general and politician, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, US President 1953-1961 钳马衔枚 鉗馬銜枚 qián mǎ xián méi with horses and soldiers gagged (idiom) / (of a marching army) in utter silence 韩复矩 韓復榘 hán fù jǔ Han Fuju (1890-1938), Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) army general and governor of Shandong, executed by Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石[Jiang3 Jie4 shi2] after he abandoned Ji'nan to the Japanese 军公教 軍公教 jūn gōng jiào army, civil service and education / all branches of state employment 韩复榘 韓復榘 hán fù jǔ Han Fuju (1890-1938), Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) army general and governor of Shandong, executed by Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石[Jiang3 Jie4shi2] after he abandoned Jinan to the Japanese 执金吾 執金吾 zhí jīn wú (Han dynasty) official in command of an army responsible for maintaining law and order in the capital 澳新军团 澳新軍團 ào - xīn jūn tuán Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) 