1. noun apprentice; disciple
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 徒弟 (Guoyu '徒' n 4; Kroll 2015 '徒' 2; XHZD '徒' 4)
  2. noun follower; believer
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 信徒 (Guoyu '徒' n 3; Kroll 2015 '徒' 2; XHZD '徒' 5)
  3. adverb only
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 仅 (Guoyu '徒' adv 1; Kroll 2015 '徒' 6; XHZD '徒' 3)
  4. verb to go by foot; to walk
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 步行 (Guoyu '徒' v; Kroll 2015 '徒' 1; Unihan '徒'; XHZD '徒' 1)
  5. adjective empty
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 空 (Guoyu '徒' adj; XHZD '徒' 2)
  6. noun a [bad] person
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: For example, 匪徒 'bandit' (Guoyu '徒' n 2; XHZD '徒' 7)
  7. noun infantry
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 步卒 (Guoyu '徒' n 1; Kroll 2015 '徒' 1a)
  8. noun a pawn
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '徒' 1b)
  9. noun a conscript; a corvee; a convict doing forced labor
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '徒' n 5; Kroll 2015 '徒' 3)
  10. noun a group; a crowd
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '徒' 4)
  11. noun a companion; a colleague
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '徒' 4a)
  12. adverb in vain
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: For example, the idiom 徒讬空言 'vainly relying on empty words' (Guoyu '徒' adv 2; Kroll 2015 '徒' 5)
  13. adverb unexpectedly
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 竟然 (Guoyu '徒' adv 3)

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