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武 kanji
warrior, military, chivalry, arms
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ブム
Kun readings
たけたけし
Words with 武
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —武装強盗armed robbery; armed robber
- —ご武運をgood luck (in battle); may fortune be with you
- —上武大学Jōbu University
- —武漢大学Wuhan University
- —武器学校Ordnance School
- —武功夜話Bukouyawa (chronicle covering the Warring States to Momoyama periods, probably bogus)
- —公武合体論idea of uniting the court and the shogunate (late Edo period)
- —非武装中立unarmed neutrality
- —武士道の華flower of chivalry (Bushido)
- —非武装地帯demilitarized zone; demilitarised zone; DMZ
- —政治的武器political weapon
- —武家諸法度law decreeing rules for daimyo during Tokugawa shogunate
- —道徳再武装Moral Rearmament; MRA
- —琉球古武術Okinawan kobudo; traditional martial arts of the Ryukyu Islands
- —武装を解くto lay down one's arms; to disarm; to demilitarize
- —武術太極拳wushu; modern sport derived from traditional Chinese martial arts
- —武士の情けsamurai's compassion; samurai-like mercy
- —武士の商法amateurish and haughty way of doing business
- —粗粒玄武岩dolerite; diabase
- —武家の商法amateurish and haughty way of doing business