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軍
軍
See also: 军
Translingual
Han character
軍 (radical 159 車+2, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月十田十 (BJWJ), four-corner 37506, composition ⿱冖車)
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
Chinese
| trad. | 軍 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 军 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 軍
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| Bronze inscriptions | Bamboo and silk script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (軍) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 揮 | *qʰul |
| 輝 | *qʰul |
| 翬 | *qʰul |
| 暉 | *qʰul |
| 煇 | *qʰul, *ɡuːn, *ɡuːnʔ |
| 楎 | *qʰul, *ɡuːn |
| 瀈 | *qʰul |
| 韗 | *qʰons, *ɢuns |
| 褌 | *kuːn |
| 鶤 | *kuːn, *ɢuns |
| 緷 | *kuːnʔ, *ɡuːnʔ, *ɢuns |
| 睴 | *kuːns, *ɡuːnʔ |
| 璭 | *kuːns |
| 瘒 | *ŋɡuːn |
| 顐 | *ŋɡuːn, *ŋɡuːns, *ɡuːn |
| 諢 | *ŋɡuːns |
| 餫 | *ɡuːn, *ɢuns |
| 渾 | *ɡuːn, *ɡuːnʔ |
| 琿 | *ɡuːn |
| 鼲 | *ɡuːn |
| 堚 | *ɡuːn |
| 鯶 | *ɡuːnʔ |
| 軍 | *kun |
| 皸 | *kun, *kuns |
| 齳 | *ŋɡunʔ |
| 喗 | *ŋɡunʔ |
| 葷 | *qʰun |
| 惲 | *qunʔ |
| 賱 | *qunʔ |
| 運 | *ɢuns |
| 暈 | *ɢuns |
| 鄆 | *ɢuns |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 車 (“cart; chariot”) + 冖 (“cover”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): gwan1
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kiûn
- Min Dong (BUC): gŭng
- Min Nan (POJ): kun
- Wu (Wiktionary): jyn (T1)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄣ
- Wade-Giles: chün1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiun
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕyn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: gwan1
- Yale: gwān
- Cantonese Pinyin: gwan1
- IPA (key): /kʷɐn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kiûn
- Hakka Romanization System: giun´
- Hagfa Pinyim: giun1
- IPA: /ki̯un²⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: gŭng
- IPA (key): /kuŋ⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kun
- Tâi-lô: kun
- Phofsit Daibuun: kwn
- IPA (Xiamen): /kun⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kun³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kun⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /kun⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kun⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: jyn (T1)
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕʏɲ⁵³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 軍 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 文 (59) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 舉云切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/kɨun/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/kiun/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/kiuən/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/kun/ |
| Li Rong |
/kiuən/ |
| Wang Li |
/kĭuən/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ki̯uən/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
jūn |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 軍 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
jūn |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ kjun › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[k]ʷər/ |
| English | army; camp |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 軍 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 7333 |
| Phonetic component |
軍 |
| Rime group |
文 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
君 |
| Old Chinese |
/*kun/ |
Definitions
軍
Compounds
Derived terms from 軍
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Korean
Hanja
軍 • (gun)
Eumhun:
- Sound (hangeul): 군 (revised: gun, 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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