Mnemonic comic for 将

dusk / evening / Taiwan pr. [xi4]

a unit of length / inch / thumb

"piece of wood" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 90), mirror image of 片[pian4]

on the eve of / to be about to / to be on the verge of

general / admiral / air chief marshal

a general or admiral

famous general

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)

imminent

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)

deputy general

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]