軍隊

ぐんたい · guntai · JLPT N3 · noun

army

🪖 軍 military + 隊 unit/squad = army; guntai sounds like gun tie

軍 (gun) means military, as in 軍人 soldier. 隊 (tai) means a squad or unit, as in 部隊 corps. Put them together and you get the military units: troops, an army. For the sound, think gun tie: an army is soldiers tied together by their guns.

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