róng
noun #65,460

Meanings

  1. 1 military; arms; army (literary)
  2. 2 surname Rong

Examples

投笔从戎参军
Tā tóubǐcóngróng, cānjūn le.
He gave up the brush for the sword and joined the army.
一生戎马生涯
Tā yìshēng róngmǎ shēngyá.
He spent his whole life in army service.

Tips

history
An old word for weapons and military affairs, alive today mostly in set phrases: 投笔从戎 (abandon the pen for the sword) and 戎马 (war-horse, i.e. military life). It also occurs as the surname Róng.

Components

radical
dagger-axe; halberd
The dagger-axe is the indexing radical and wraps the character: its first stroke comes early, then the last three dagger strokes finish the glyph after the inner element is written. A weapon is the heart of the 'military' meaning.
semantic
shí
ten; here a shield/armor element
The inner cross is not the number 'ten' here — it stands for the armor or shield. Weapon plus armor together give the old general sense of 'arms' and 'the military' in .

Stroke Order

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