jūn

army

Simplified form of . Phonosemantic compound. represents the sound and represents the meaning.

Components
勻 sound component

  Sound component

yún

  

equal

车 meaning component

  Meaning component

chē

  

vehicle

Evolution

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

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
军 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
军 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

jūn

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

Most common words with 军
Freq.
Word
Meaning

冠军

champion

army

军队

army

将军

general

军事

military affairs

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

Sound component in 11 characters (2 verified)

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ʷər

kjun

jūn

army; camp


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 46.0195% of movies

445th most common character in movies

102nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Traditional

Unicode

U+519B


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