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Kanji Detail for 戎 - "weapon, soldier, war, great, barbarian"
戎
- Meaning
戎 means "weapon, soldier, war, great, barbarian."
Weapon - Arms; military equipment.
Soldier - A warrior; a military person.
War - Battle; warfare.
Great - Large; big.
Barbarian - A foreign people; western tribes of ancient China.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
warrior; arms; barbarian; Ainu
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
arms, armaments; military affair
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
surname Rong
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
arms, armaments; military affairs
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Weapons. The five weapons are: bow, shu, spear, ge, and halberd. See (Book of Rites commentary). Hence, all military preparations are called 戎. Such as 小戎, 元戎, both referring to war chariots. Both from (Book of Odes). | Soldiers are 戎. Such as old term for commander-in-chief being 總戎. Also, warfare is 戎. Such as joining the army being 從戎. | Great. Such as 戎菽, meaning soybeans. | The collective name for ancient western peoples. Such as 戎狄.
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