軍 (gwan1 | jun1) : army; military; soldiers

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軍

gwan1

jun1

[1] [n] army; military; soldiers; troops; forces; of national defence [2] corps (a military unit) [3] [n] armed service

Stroke count: 9

Level: 2

Radical: (#159)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

軍 / 军

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44

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殿軍 din6 gwan1 dian4 jun1 = fourth place

參軍 caam1 gwan1 can1 jun1 = join the army

海軍 hoi2 gwan1 hai3 jun1 = the navy

冠軍 gun3 gwan1 guan4 jun1 = champion; winner

空軍 hung1 gwan1 kong1 jun1 = the airforce

亞軍 aa3 gwan1 ya3 jun1 (Taiwan), ya4 jun1 (PRC) = runners-up; second place

童軍 tung4 gwan1 = scouts; guides

男童軍 naam4 tung4 gwan1 = boy scout; boy scouts

女童軍 neoi5 tung4 gwan1 = girl guides; girl scouts

童子軍 tung4 zi2 gwan1 tong2 zi3 jun1 = scouts; guides
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今次嘅比賽我哋全軍覆沒，輸得好慘。粵
During the competition, our team was completely annihilated by theirs.

老師帶我哋去參觀二次大戰博物館同軍人塚。粵
The teacher brought us to the museum and memorial tombs of World War II.

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Decimal representation of this word: 軍
Unicode code for this character: U+8ECD (off-site link)

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