軍配

Japanese
Kanji in this term
軍 配
ぐん
Grade: 4		 はい > ばい
Grade: 3
on’yomi
軍配: a samurai using a gunbai uchiwa to signal to his troops.

Etymology

Appears to be a Japanese coinage from Middle Chinese-derived elements, as a compound of 軍 (gun, “army, military, troops”) +‎ 配 (hai, “arrangement, positioning”). The hai changes to bai as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Alternative forms
  • 軍敗 (less common)

Noun

軍配 (hiragana ぐんばい, rōmaji gunbai)

  1. the act of signaling directions or commands to an armed force
  2. a person issuing such directions
  3. the act of advancing or retreating in response to the situation
  4. the act of changing one's prices in response to the situation: bargaining, haggling
  5. short for 軍配団扇 (gunbai uchiwa): a lacquered rigid wooden fan used for signaling
  6. (sumo) any of various signals indicated by a gyoji (sumo referee) using a gunbai uchiwa, including decision of the winner of a bout
    軍配 (ぐんばい)通 (どお)り
    gunbai dōri
    as indicated, confirmation of the victory indicated by a referee

Derived terms
Derived terms

Idioms
Idioms
  • 軍配 (ぐんばい)を上 (あ)げる (gunbai o ageru): “to raise the gunbai (uchiwa)” → to decide in favor of someone, such as in a competition (from the way the gyōji or sumo referee raises the gunbai uchiwa to indicate a win)
  • 軍配 (ぐんばい)を返 (かえ)す (gunbai o kaesu): “to turn over the gunbai (uchiwa)” → to signal the start of a sumo match, once the initial start-up positioning time has run out

Synonyms

Verb

軍配する (suru conjugation, hiragana ぐんばいする, rōmaji gunbai suru)

  1. to signal directions or commands to an armed force
  2. to advance or retreat in response to the situation
  3. to change one's prices in response to the situation: to bargain, to haggle

Conjugation
Conjugation of "軍配する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形) 軍配し ぐんばいし gunbai shi
Continuative (連用形) 軍配し ぐんばいし gunbai shi
Terminal (終止形) 軍配する ぐんばいする gunbai suru
Attributive (連体形) 軍配する ぐんばいする gunbai suru
Hypothetical (仮定形) 軍配すれ ぐんばいすれ gunbai sure
Imperative (命令形) 軍配せよ¹
軍配しろ²		 ぐんばいせよ¹
ぐんばいしろ²		 gunbai seyo¹
gunbai shiro²
Key constructions
Passive 軍配される ぐんばいされる gunbai sareru
Causative 軍配させる
軍配さす		 ぐんばいさせる
ぐんばいさす		 gunbai saseru
gunbai sasu
Potential 軍配できる ぐんばいできる gunbai dekiru
Volitional 軍配しよう ぐんばいしよう gunbai shiyō
Negative 軍配しない ぐんばいしない gunbai shinai
Negative continuative 軍配せず ぐんばいせず gunbai sezu
Formal 軍配します ぐんばいします gunbai shimasu
Perfective 軍配した ぐんばいした gunbai shita
Conjunctive 軍配して ぐんばいして gunbai shite
Hypothetical conditional 軍配すれば ぐんばいすれば gunbai sureba
¹ Written imperative

² Spoken imperative

Synonyms

References
  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
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