軍 – army, force, troops

9 strokesTaught in grade 4#189 in newspaper frequencyN3 vocabulary

The kanji 軍 means army, force, troops, war, battle. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is グン (gun); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is いくさ (ikusa). It is written with 9 strokes, under radical 車 (no. 159).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	グン	gun
Kun’yomi	いくさ	ikusa

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 車 (Kangxi radical 159). Components: 車・冖.

Words using 軍

軍ぐんarmy軍隊ぐんたいarmed forces軍艦ぐんかんwarship軍事ぐんじmilitary affairs軍備ぐんびarmaments軍服ぐんぷくmilitary uniform

Example sentences

我が軍はその王国を襲った。

Our army attacked the kingdom.

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その軍隊は十分な武器を持っていた。

The troops had plenty of arms.

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それは大きくて黒いアメリカの軍艦だった。

It was a big black American warship.

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Kanji with the same radical

転車輸輪軽載較輝軸軟輩軒軌

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