兴师动众

to muster large forces / to get a great number of people involved (in carrying out some task)

to rise / to flourish / to become popular / to start / to encourage / to get up / (often used in the negative) to permit or allow (dialect) / maybe (dialect)

feeling or desire to do sth / interest in sth / excitement

to dispatch troops / to send an army / to mobilize forces

surname Shi

teacher / master / expert / model / army division / (old) troops / to dispatch troops

(of sth) to move / to set in movement / to displace / to touch / to make use of / to stir (emotions) / to alter / abbr. for 動詞|动词[dong4 ci2], verb

variant of 眾|众[zhong4]

crowd; multitude / many; numerous