軍配
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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軍 | 配 |
ぐん Grade: 4 |
はい > ばい Grade: 3 |
on'yomi |
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Etymology
Appears to be a Japanese coinage from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese-derived elements, as a compound of 軍 (gun, “army, military, troops”) + 配 (hai, “arrangement, positioning”). The hai changes to bai as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation
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Alternative forms
- 軍敗 (less common)
Noun
- the act of signaling directions or commands to an armed force
- a person issuing such directions
- the act of advancing or retreating in response to the situation
- the act of changing one's prices in response to the situation: bargaining, haggling
- short for 軍配団扇 (gunbai uchiwa): a lacquered rigid wooden fan used for signaling
- (sumo) any of various signals indicated by a gyoji (sumo referee) using a gunbai uchiwa, including decision of the winner of a bout
- 軍配通り
- gunbai dōri
- as indicated, confirmation of the victory indicated by a referee
- 軍配通り
Derived terms
Derived terms
- 軍配糸蜻蛉 (gunbai ito tonbo): a type of damselfly, Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.
- 軍配団扇 (gunbai uchiwa): a lacquered rigid wooden fan used for signaling
- 軍配者 (gunbaisha): a person issuing commands to a military force: a commander
- 軍配凧 (gunbaidako): a kite in the shape of a gunbai uchiwa
- 軍配蜻蛉 (gunbai tonbo): a type of damselfly, Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.
- 軍配薺 (gunbai nazuna): the field pennycress(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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Idioms
Idioms
- 軍配を上げる (gunbai o ageru): “to raise the gunbai (uchiwa)” → to decide in favor of someone, such as in a competition (from the way the gyōji or sumo referee raises the gunbai uchiwa to indicate a win)
- 軍配を返す (gunbai o kaesu): “to turn over the gunbai (uchiwa)” → to signal the start of a sumo match, once the initial start-up positioning time has run out
Synonyms
Verb
軍配する • (gunbai suru) suru (stem 軍配し (gunbai shi), past 軍配した (gunbai shita))
- to signal directions or commands to an armed force
- to advance or retreat in response to the situation
- to change one's prices in response to the situation: to bargain, to haggle
Conjugation
Conjugation of "軍配する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms") | ||||
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Mizenkei ("imperfective") | 軍配し | ぐんばいし | gunbai shi | |
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") | 軍配し | ぐんばいし | gunbai shi | |
Shūshikei ("terminal") | 軍配する | ぐんばいする | gunbai suru | |
Rentaikei ("attributive") | 軍配する | ぐんばいする | gunbai suru | |
Kateikei ("hypothetical") | 軍配すれ | ぐんばいすれ | gunbai sure | |
Meireikei ("imperative") | 軍配せよ¹ 軍配しろ² |
ぐんばいせよ¹ ぐんばいしろ² |
gunbai seyo¹ gunbai shiro² | |
Key constructions | ||||
Passive | 軍配される | ぐんばいされる | gunbai sareru | |
Causative | 軍配させる 軍配さす |
ぐんばいさせる ぐんばいさす |
gunbai saseru gunbai sasu | |
Potential | 軍配できる | ぐんばいできる | gunbai dekiru | |
Volitional | 軍配しよう | ぐんばいしよう | gunbai shiyō | |
Negative | 軍配しない | ぐんばいしない | gunbai shinai | |
Negative continuative | 軍配せず | ぐんばいせず | gunbai sezu | |
Formal | 軍配します | ぐんばいします | gunbai shimasu | |
Perfective | 軍配した | ぐんばいした | gunbai shita | |
Conjunctive | 軍配して | ぐんばいして | gunbai shite | |
Hypothetical conditional | 軍配すれば | ぐんばいすれば | gunbai sureba | |
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative |
Synonyms
References
- Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
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