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将 kanji
leader, commander, general, admiral, or, and again, soon, from now on, just about
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ショウソウ
Kun readings
まさにはたまさひきいるもって
Variant forms
將Words with 将
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —はさみ将棋checkerslike game played with shogi pieces and board; hasami shogi
- —お山の大将king of the hill; king of the castle; king of the mountain
- —将棋を指すto play shogi
- —征東大将軍commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force against the eastern barbarians (940-1335)
- —空軍連絡将校air liaison officer
- —将中に将たるto be a leader among leaders
- —将来ビジョンvision for the future
- —摩訶大大将棋maka dai dai shogi (large 19x19 board shogi variant)
- —日本将棋連盟Japan Shogi Association
- —予備役将校訓練課程Reserve Officers' Training Corps (US); ROTC
- —勇将の下に弱卒なしfollowers take after their leaders; there are no cowardly soldiers under a brave general
- —王将フードサービスOhsho Food Service Corporation
- —敗軍の将は兵を語らずdon't be a sore loser; don't make excuses for your failures; a defeated general should not talk of strategy
- —一将功成りて万骨枯るthousands die to make one hero; one general reaches glory, ten thousand bones are left to dry
- —一将功成って万骨枯るthousands die to make one hero; one general reaches glory, ten thousand bones are left to dry
- —王侯将相いずくんぞ種あらんやhigh status does not depend on birth; every man can achieve great power if he exerts himself
- —将を射んと欲すれば先ず馬を射よdo not shoot straight for the top; he that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin; if you want to shoot the general, first shoot his horse
- —将棊shogi; Japanese chess
- —将几camp stool; folding stool
- —智将skilled manager; resourceful general