軍

See also: 军

Translingual

Etymology

車 (cart) + 冖 (cover)

Han character

軍 (radical 159 車+2, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月十田十 (BJWJ), four-corner 3750₆, composition ⿱冖車)

1. army, military
2. soldiers, troops

References

• KangXi: page 1239, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38179
• Dae Jaweon: page 1713, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3513, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8ECD

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Chinese

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trad.		軍
simp.		军

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jūn (jun¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwan¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): kiûn
• Min Nan (POJ): kun

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄣ
    • Wade-Giles: chün¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiun
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕyn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwan¹
    • Yale: gwān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwan¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kʷɐn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kiûn
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /ki̯un²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kun
    • Tâi-lô: kun
    • IPA (Taipei): /kun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kun³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (軍, reconstructed)
Character (軍), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 文 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 舉云切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kɨun/	/ki̯uən/	/kiuən/	/kiun/	/kun/	/kĭuən/	/kiuən/

Old Chinese pronunciation (軍, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
軍								jūn								‹ kjun ›								/*[k]ʷər/								army; camp
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
軍					7333					軍					文					2					君					/*kun/

Noun

軍 (classifier 個／个)

1. army, military
2. soldiers, troops

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Japanese

Kanji

軍

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: くん (kun)
• Kan’on: くん (kun)
• Kan’yōon: ぐん (gun)
• Kun: いくさ (ikusa)

Compounds

軍配 (ぐんばい, gunbai) 軍役 軍縮 軍神

軍人 (ぐんじん, gunjin, “serviceman”) 軍制

軍政 軍曹

軍隊 将軍

Noun

軍 (hiragana ぐん, romaji gun)

1. army

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Korean

Hanja

軍 (gun)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 군 (revised: gun, McCune-Reischauer: kun, Yale: kwun)

• Name (hangeul): 군사 (revised: gunsa, McCune-Reischauer: kunsa, Yale: kwunsa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

軍 (quân)

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