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)

将 character breakdown

dusk / evening / Taiwan pr. [xi4]

Mnemonic symbol: this character looks a bit like a bat, and bats come out of their caves at dusk. I could see the upper left 丿 as part of the bat's right wing, ㇇ as the body/head and 丶 as the eye of the bat.

Xi Shi (xi) goes out for a space walk in front of the space station (Ø1) in the evening (夕), where she observes a space bat.
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".
"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.

Characters with 将 as component

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.
tinkling of small bells
Japanese variant of 獎|奖[jiang3]
Japanese variant of 醬|酱[jiang4]
cicada (Cosmopsaltria opalifera)

Words with 将

lit. old general / commander-in-chief 將帥|将帅, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess / fig. old-timer / veteran
indirect, psychological method of getting sb to do as one wishes (e.g. questioning whether they are up to the task)
fierce general / valiant military leader / fig. brave individual
ready to start on sth / about to act
ruined army, defeated general (idiom); scattered remnants
general / military leader / fierce man
valiant general
lit. choose a general from among the dwarfs / fig. choose the best person available (out of a mediocre bunch)
shrimp soldiers and crab generals (in mythology or popular fiction, the army of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea) / useless troops (idiom)
to approach one's coffin (idiom); with one foot in the grave
approaching the end / about to conclude
lit. to dispatch a general is not as effective as to excite a general / fig. inciting people to action is more effective than dispatching orders
the enemy general
Yang Saga, a popular fiction from the Northern Song, depicting the heroic Yang family 楊業|杨业 of warriors
(Tw) (sports) foreign player / import
to spur sb into action by making negative remarks
no trumps (in card games)
lit. to choose a general among the dwarves (idiom) / fig. to pick the best out of a bad group

Sentences with 将

yuán
lái
shì
wu̅
gui̅
 
 
xia̅
mǐ
èr
jiàng