ba quân

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See also: bá quan

Vietnamese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Calque of Chinese 三軍三军 (tam quân, three armies), referring to battle formations in ancient China that consisted of three battalions (left, center and right).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ba quân (𠀧軍)

  1. the entire or all of the military forces
    • 5th century BCE (published), Sun Tzu (attributed), The Art of War, ch. 5; 1953 (published) Vietnamese translation by Ngô Văn Triện; 1993 English translation by Ralph D. Sawyer
      Ba quân đông đúc, có thể khiến thụ địch cả mà không thua, bởi vì đã có kỳ chính.
      What enable the masses of the Three Armies to invariably withstand the enemy without being defeated are the unorthodox and the orthodox.
    • 1804, Ngô Gia Văn Phái (Ngô Household's Writers), Hoàng Lê Nhất Thống Chí (Records of the Unification of the Imperial Lê), Ch. 3; Vietnamese translation by Ngô Đức Vân & Kiều Thu Hoạch
      Hoàng thượng cho ba quân vào lạy ở sân điện Vạn-thọ, tuyên chỉ uý lạo họ.
      The Emperor allowed the entire army to enter the atrium of the Hall of Longevity to bow down to him, then [He] issued an edict to console them.

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