WORD DETAIL
軍人
ぐんじん
Examples
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Study notes
1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning
- Structure:
軍人, readぐんじん, broadly denotes a person serving as a member of the armed forces. - Basic usage: It identifies a character's status or the former user of a museum object without specifying that person's rank.
2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions
- A member of the armed forces
- It denotes a person serving in the military, whether writing a letter in a story or identified through a museum object. The word alone does not specify rank.

