軍

简 军 · 繁 軍
Mandarin · pinyin jūn

Meanings

  1. (bound form) army
  2. military
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軍
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军
jūn · army, military; soldiers, troops
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1 · jun1

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  1. armed forces; army; troops
  2. corps; army (consisting of two or more divisions) (Classifier: 個/个)
  3. soldiers
  4. (literary) to station
  5. (historical) the punishment of being transported to a remote location for penal servitude
  6. (historical) a kind of first-level administrative division during the Tang, Five Dynasties, and Song eras, the command of a jiedushi (節度使)

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