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军事 jūnshì “military affairs” in Chinese

Traditional 軍事

What 军事 means

  1. military affairs
  2. (attributive) military

How to say 军事

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale军jūn1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale事shì4th tone, falling

军事 in a sentence

  1. 这附近有一个军事基地。

    Zhè fùjìn yǒu yí ge jūnshì jīdì.

    There is a military base near here.

    Sentence #903626 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 这个国家的军事力量很先进。

    Zhè ge guójiā de jūnshì lìliang hěn xiānjìn.

    This country’s military is very advanced.

    Sentence #3544974 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 军事 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 军 (jūn) with each of its parts in a different colour
军jūnarmy
  • 冖cover · mì
  • 车cart · chē
The character 事 (shì) with each of its parts in a different colour
事shìmatter
  • 一one · yī
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 彐snout · jì
  • 亅hook · jué

How to write 军事

军 6 strokes · 事 8 strokes

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军事 (jūnshì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 军事 (jūnshì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 军事

Words with 军

冠军guànjūn · champion季军jìjūn · third place亚军yàjūn · runner-up将军jiāngjūn · general (military rank)军队jūnduì · army

Words with 事

事shì · matter没事méishì · it’s nothing事情shìqing · matter同事tóngshì · colleague故事gùshi · story从事cóngshì · to engage in人事rénshì · personnel事实shìshí · fact事物shìwù · thing事先shìxiān · in advance

More words: Society & Law

婚礼hūnlǐ · wedding ceremony婚姻hūnyīn · marriage集体jítǐ · collective (decision)纪律jìlǜ · discipline雷léi · thunder理论lǐlùn · theory命令mìnglìng · order批准pīzhǔn · to approve

FAQs

军事 (jūnshì) means “military affairs” or “(attributive) military”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it jūnshì: jūn with a 1st tone, then shì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 军事 is written 軍事. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type junshi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 军事 from the suggestions. Typing junshi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
军事 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.