will / shall / to use / to take / to checkmate / just a short while ago / (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把[ba3])
general / commander-in-chief (military) / king (chess piece) / to command / to lead

= + + : The chess king (将) is commanding (将) his bats (夕) to attack Joan of Arc (ji) with sawdust (丬) in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4) to punish her for her sins. He gives the command by showing the thumbs up (寸) sign.
to desire / to invite / to request
(bound form) a general / (literary) to command; to lead / (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)

將 character breakdown

a unit of length / inch / thumb

= + + : Kitty Cat is playing with a petal leaf in the encampment's bathroom. She's keeping it in the air by hitting it with a flute and a crowbar. It's so much fun that she thinks to herself "thumbs up".
moon / month / monthly / CL:個|个[ge4],輪|轮[lun2]

= + : Yu the Great (yu) is modelling a moon (月) in the elevator's bathroom (e4). He uses a stapler (⺆) to staple a lot of capacitors (二) together to form a moon shape, while the real moon is sitting for him.
"piece of wood" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 90), mirror image of 片[pian4]

= + : Just as she entered the anglepod, the Queen of Hearts craves for a popsicle. It seems like a miracle that just inside the anglepod's kitchen she finds a crate full of popsicles, which she cracks open using a dinosaur bone. Unfortunately, all the popsicles are contaminated with pieces of wood.
classifier for strips of land or bamboo, shops, factories etc / slit bamboo or chopped wood (dialect)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: log of wood.

Just inside the anthill's kitchen (an2) Pinocchio (p) sees a pile of wood logs (爿) beneath a wind wheel (丆). Thinking that it was the wind wheel which chopped the wood, feeling personally threatened, he attacks the wind wheel with a roast fork (丩).

Characters with 將 as component

prize / award / encouragement / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + + : Joan of Arc (ji) is exploring the inner chambers of the anglepod (ang3). At one point she has to choose between three gates, each hiding a reward (奖) for her struggle. Behind the first gate, a bat (夕) is waiting to fight her. Behind the second gate a pit full of wood chips (丬) is waiting for her to fall inside. Behind the third gate a robot is (大) waiting to serve her and guide her through the dungeon.
thick paste of fermented soybean / marinated in soy paste / paste / jam

= + + : Joan of Arc (ji) spilled a bottle of soy sauce (酱) in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). She quickly covers the mess with sawdust (丬), but there are already a few bats (夕) and roosters (酉) licking up the soy sauce.
starch paste
broth / serum / to starch
oar / paddle

= + + : A group of bats (夕) throws pieces of wood (丬) at Joan of Arc's (ji) Christmas Tree (木) in the anglepod's living room (ang3), so Joan of Arc shoos them away with a big paddle (桨).
surname Jiang / refers to Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石

= + : Chiang Kai-shek (蒋) is battling Joan of Arc (ji) in the anglepod (ang3). They are playing a life-sized game of chess and have the board laid out using sheets of artificial lawn (艹). Chiang Kai-shek is riding on his king (将) while Joan of Arc is riding on her queen while the figures are moving over the battlefield.
variant of 獎|奖[jiang3]
tinkling of small bells
cicada (Cosmopsaltria opalifera)
(manner of walking)
see 踉蹡[liang4 qiang4]

Words with 將

on the eve of / to be about to / to be on the verge of
general / admiral / air chief marshal
a general or admiral
lieutenant general / vice admiral / air marshal
important general / generalissimo
commander-in-chief (military) / star player (sports) / key figure (in an organization)
great mansion on the verge of collapse (idiom); hopeless situation
counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation
deputy general
Easy to raise an army of one thousand, but hard to find a good general. (idiom)
counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation
lit. one general, one order (idiom) / fig. every boss has their own rules / everyone has their own way of doing things
top general / commander-in-chief
Than Shwe (1933-), Myanmar general and politician, president of Myanmar 1992-2011
Liu Bei's five great generals in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, namely: Guan Yu 關羽|关羽, Zhang Fei 張飛|张飞, Zhao Yun 趙雲|赵云, Ma Chao 馬超|马超, Huang Zhong 黃忠|黄忠
words of a man on his deathbed always come from the heart (proverb)
Ba Jia Jiang, the eight generals that guard the godly realm in Taiwanese folklore, represented by troupes of dancers in temple processions / (slang) lowlife gangster or young hoodlum, often written as "8+9", [ba1 jia1 jiu3]

Sentences with 將

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