| 役 | [ yì ] forced labor, corvée, obligatory task, military service, to use as servant, to enserf, servant (old), war, campaign, battle |
| 役使 | [ yì shǐ ] to put to work (servant or animal), to make use of for labor |
| 役使動物 | [ yì shǐ dòng wù ] draft animals, beasts of burden |
| 役男 | [ yì nán ] males eligible for military service, draftee, abbr. for 役齡男子|役龄男子 |
| 役畜 | [ yì chù ] draft animal, beast of burden |
| 役齡 | [ yì líng ] enlistment age |
| ⇒ 一身兩役 | [ yī shēn liǎng yì ] one person taking on two tasks simultaneously |
| ⇒ 不列顛戰役 | [ bù liè diān zhàn yì ] Battle of Britain (Jul-Oct 1940) |
| ⇒ 中途島戰役 | [ zhōng tú daǒ zhàn yì ] Battle of Midway, June 1942 |
| ⇒ 使役 | [ shǐ yì ] to use (an animal or servant), working (animal), (beast) of burden, causative form of verbs (esp. in grammar of Japanese, Korean etc) |
| ⇒ 僕役 | [ pú yì ] servant |
| ⇒ 兵役 | [ bīng yì ] military service |
| ⇒ 勞役 | [ laó yì ] forced labor, corvée (labor required of a serf), animal labor |
| ⇒ 夫役 | [ fū yì ] corvee, laborer |
| ⇒ 奴役 | [ nú yì ] to enslave, slavery |
| ⇒ 孟良崮戰役 | [ mèng liáng gù zhàn yì ] Battle of Mt Mengliang in Shandong of 1947 between the Nationalists and Communists |
| ⇒ 差役 | [ chaī yì ] forced labor of feudal tenant (corvée), bailiff of feudal yamen |
| ⇒ 平津戰役 | [ píng jīn zhàn yì ] Pingjin Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War |
| ⇒ 徭役 | [ yaó yì ] forced labor, corvee |
| ⇒ 戰役 | [ zhàn yì ] military campaign |
| ⇒ 拘役 | [ jū yì ] detention |
| ⇒ 斯大林格勒戰役 | [ sī dà lín gé lè zhàn yì ] Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), decisive battle of Second World War and one of the bloodiest battles in history, when the Germans failed to take Stalingrad, were then trapped and destroyed by Soviet forces |
| ⇒ 服兵役 | [ fú bīng yì ] to serve in the army |
| ⇒ 服役 | [ fú yì ] to serve in the army, in active service |
| ⇒ 淮海戰役 | [ haǐ zhàn yì ] Huaihai Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War, considered the determining battle of the war |
| ⇒ 現役 | [ xiàn yì ] (military) active duty |
| ⇒ 瓜達卡納爾戰役 | [ guā dá kǎ nà ěr zhàn yì ] battle of Guadalcanal of late 1942, the turning point of the war in the Pacific |
| ⇒ 田役 | [ tián yì ] farm work |
| ⇒ 畢其功於一役 | [ bì qí gōng yú yī yì ] to accomplish the whole task at one stroke (idiom) |
| ⇒ 苦役 | [ kǔ yì ] forced labor, corvée, penal servitude |
| ⇒ 衙役 | [ yá yì ] bailiff of feudal yamen |
| ⇒ 退役 | [ tuì yì ] to retire from the military, sport etc, to demobilize, to decommission, retired from use |
| ⇒ 遼瀋戰役 | [ shěn zhàn yì ] Liaoshen Campaign (Sep-Nov 1948), the first of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War |
| ⇒ 避役 | [ bì yì ] chameleon |
| ⇒ 雜役 | [ zá yì ] odd jobs, part-time worker |
| ⇒ 靖難之役 | [ jìng nán zhī yì ] war of 1402 between successors of the first Ming Emperor |
| ⇒ 預備役軍人 | [ yù beì yì jūn rén ] reserve troops |
| ⇒ 驅役 | [ qū yì ] to order (sb) about, (by extension) to put to use |