漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons
軍: army, force
Also: troops, war, battle
JLPT N29 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
冖 and 車 carry the meaning
9 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
グンgun · on'yomi · in compounds
- 軍ぐんarmy, force, troops
- 軍隊ぐんたいarmy, troops
- 軍人ぐんじんmilitary personnel, soldier
- 軍縮ぐんしゅくarmament reduction
- 軍事力ぐんじりょくmilitary force, military strength
- 軍国主義ぐんこくしゅぎmilitarism
- 空軍くうぐんair force
- 陸軍りくぐんarmy
- 海軍かいぐんnavy
- 敵軍てきぐんenemy army
- 一軍いちぐんan army, entire army, first team
Also read いくさ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)車 cart; chariot + 勹 to surround
Semantic 車 (“chariot”) + phonetic 勹. The phonetic component here is not 勹, but the original form of 螾, which also acts as the phonetic component of 旬, 勻 and 云.
Source: Wiktionary, 軍 (rev. 92201892), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Look down on the world's first machines! This character shows the wheels and the frame of an ancient wagon.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side軍 army · 冖
vs軌 rut · 九In ChineseSimplified 军 · traditional, as in Japanese · jūn
Japan keeps the traditional form 軍; mainland China simplifies it to 军.
- Simplified
- 军 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 軍 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jūn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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