Chinese Notes

役 yì

yì noun service / labor
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '役'; Guoyu '役' n 3; Kroll 2015 '役' 1, p. 584; Unihan '役'; XHZD '役' 2, p. 890)
yì noun a servant / a laborer
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, 仆役 servant (CC-CEDICT '役'; Guoyu '役' n 4; Kroll 2015 '役' 4, p. 584; Unihan '役'; XHZD '役' 5, p. 891)
yì noun a campaign / a battle
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '役'; Guoyu '役' n 2; Kroll 2015 '役' 2a, p. 584; XHZD '役' 1, p. 890)
yì noun service in the military
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As in 兵役 (CC-CEDICT '役'; Guoyu '役' n 3; Kroll 2015 '役' 2, p. 584; XHZD '役' 3, p. 890)
yì noun forced labor
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '役'; Kroll 2015 '役' 1a, p. 584)
yì verb to serve / to work
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 服事 (CC-CEDICT '役'; Guoyu '役' v 4; Unihan '役'; XHZD '役' 4, p. 891)
yì noun a person working in an official capacity
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '役' 3, p. 584)
yì noun a slave
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '役' 4a, p. 584)
yì noun a disciple
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '役' 4b, p. 584)
yì verb to guard a border
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 戍守边疆 (Guoyu '役' v 1)
yì verb to order somebody to do something
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 使喚 (Guoyu '役' v 2)
yì verb to use / to implement
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 施行 (Guoyu '役' v 3)
yì verb to attract / to involve
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 吸引 (Guoyu '役' v 5)
yì noun a soldier
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 士兵 (Guoyu '役' n 1)

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奴役 to enslave
战役(戰役) a military campaign
役使 to put a servant or animal to work / to make use of for labor
形役 to do work / to do manual labor
差役 forced labor of feudal tenant ; a bailiff / a messenger
杂役(雜役) odd jobs / a part-time worker
田役 to do farm work
使役 causative
驱役(驅役) to order / to put to use
劳役(勞役) forced labor / animal labor
兵役 military service
服兵役 military draft
仆役(僕役) a servant
苦役 forced labor / corvée / penal servitude
夫役 corvee / laborer
服役 to serve in the army / in active service
退役 to retire from the military, sport etc / to demobilize / to decommission / retired from use
徭役 forced labor / corvee
役男 males eligible for military service / draftee
拘役 detention
避役 chameleon
厮役 a servant / a person providing forced service
免役 to exempt from forced labor ; to exempt from military service
衙役 a bailiff
役使动物(役使動物) draft animals / beasts of burden
役畜 draft animal / beast of burden
役龄(役齡) enlistment age
现役(現役) active duty
预备役军人(預備役軍人) reserve troops
一身两役(一身兩役) one person taking on two tasks simultaneously
毕其功于一役(畢其功於一役) to accomplish the whole task at one stroke
惩役(懲役) punish by forced labor

Also contained in

马拉松战役、崖门战役、靖难之役、土木之役、辽沈战役、平津战役、淮海战役、使役态、役小角、长城战役、不列颠战役、孟良崮战役、斯大林格勒战役、瓜达卡纳尔战役、中途岛战役

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