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軍

jūn

army

Phonosemantic compound. 勻 represents the sound and 車 represents the meaning.

Components
勻 sound component

勻  Sound component

yún

  

equal

車 meaning component

車  Meaning component

chē, jū

  

vehicle

Evolution

軍 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
軍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
軍 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
軍 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

军 (軍) 

jūn

army, military; soldiers, troops; army; military; arms; CL:個|个[gè]

Most common words with 軍
Freq.
Word
Meaning

冠军

champion

军

army

军队

army

将军

general

军事

military affairs

Component uses

Sound component in 9 characters (3 verified)

運 揮 暈 輝 渾 暉 葷 諢 鄆

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ʷər

kjun

jūn

army; camp


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 46.0195% of movies

445th most common character in movies

102nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Simplified

军

Unicode

U+8ECD

Shuowen

“軍，圜圍也。四千人為軍。从車，从包省。軍，兵車也。”


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