将勤补绌

to compensate for lack of ability through hard work (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)

diligent / industrious / hardworking / frequent / regular / constant

variant of 勤[qin2] / industrious / solicitous

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

crimson silk / deficiency / to stitch