Word Meaning 将軍

しょうぐん shougun

将軍 is read as しょうぐん (shougun) and means general.

Meaning

English

general
shogun

Reading

Kana

しょうぐん

Romaji

shougun

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 19 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N2 Jōyō Grade 6 Kanken 5級 Rank 2899 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

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将軍家

しょうぐんけ

family positioned to accede to the shogunate

将軍職

しょうぐんしょく

the shogunate

大将軍

たいしょうぐん

Taishōgun (one of the eight gods of the traditional calendar)

副将軍

ふくしょうぐん

lieutenant general

冬将軍

ふゆしょうぐん

General Winter

闇将軍

やみしょうぐん

power behind the throne

征東大将軍

せいとうたいしょうぐん

commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force against the eastern barbarians (940-1335)

征東将軍

せいとうしょうぐん

commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force against the eastern barbarians (940-1335)

鬼将軍

おにしょうぐん

The General (1936 novel by C. S. Forester)

凱旋将軍

がいせんしょうぐん

triumphant general

征夷大将軍

せいいたいしょうぐん

commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force against the barbarians (beginning in 794 CE)

軍大将

いくさだいしょう

(military) commander

Example Sentences

将軍は城門の前で馬を止めた。

しょうぐんはじょうもんのまえでうまをとめた。

the general stopped his horse in front of the castle gate.

世継ぎのいない王は発狂し、一族は毒に倒れた今、将軍が王座を奪うチャンスがついにやって来た。

With the heirless king going crazy and royal family poisoned, the general of the army finally had his chance to usurp the throne.

『カムイの剣』は、1868年の徳川将軍時代の崩壊と、明治天皇下での日本の復興という変革期を舞台にした、一種の侍/忍者物語だ。

Kamui no Ken was a sort of samurai/ninja story set during the transition of the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the re-establishment of Japan under the Emperor Meiji in 1868.

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