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Kanji Detail for 戎 - "weapon, soldier, war"

戎

  • Meaning

    戎 means "weapon, soldier, war."

    1. Weapon - Arms; military equipment.

    2. Soldier - A warrior; a military person.

    3. War - Battle; warfare.

    4. Great - Large; big.

    5. Barbarian - A foreign people; western tribes of ancient China.

  • Four-character idioms with 戎

    • 夷蛮戎狄 いばんじゅうてき Listen the barbarians beyond the borders of old China
    • 東夷西戎 とういせいじゅう Listen barbarians to the east and to the west (from the perspective of old 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.

  • Onyomi

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    juu(ジュウ) ジュウ

  • Kunyomi

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    ebisu(えびす) えびす

    tsuwamono(つわもの) つわもの

  • Strokes

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    6 strokes

  • Radical

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    戈 (hokozukuri・hokogamae・hoko・kanohoko)

  • Related Keywords

    weapon soldier war military barbarian

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