將功補過

to make up for one's faults by doing good deeds (idiom)

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

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)

meritorious deed or service / achievement / result / service / accomplishment / work (physics)

to repair / to patch / to mend / to make up for / to fill (a vacancy) / to supplement

to make up for an earlier mistake / to make amends

surname Guo

to cross / to go over / to pass (time) / to celebrate (a holiday) / to live / to get along / excessively / too-

(experienced action marker)