Definition

1. Noun:
   • Army; Troops; Military Force: Refers to an organized body of armed personnel trained for warfare, or more broadly, to soldiers or fighters as a collective.
   • Piece; Man; Card: In games, denotes a playing card, a chess piece, or a game token.
   • (Derogatory) Character; Fellow; Bunch: Used contemptuously to refer to a person or a group of people, often implying they are disreputable, worthless, or of a certain undesirable type.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Army):
  • Quân đội ấy rất thiện chiến. (That army is very combat-effective.)
  • Ông ấy đã phục vụ trong quân nhiều năm. (He served in the military for many years.)
• Noun (Game Piece):
  • Anh ấy vừa ăn một quân của tôi. (He just took one of my pieces.)
  • Hãy rút một quân bài. (Draw a card.)
• Noun (Derogatory):
  • Đừng tin lũ quân lừa đảo đó. (Don't trust those swindlers.)
  • Quân ăn cướp đã bị bắt. (The band of robbers was caught.)

Advanced Usage

• "quân bài": Literally "card"; often used metaphorically to mean a "ploy," "strategy," or a "person used as a pawn."

  • Hắn ta chỉ là một quân bài trong ván cờ chính trị. (He is just a pawn in the political game.)

• "quân sư": Military advisor or strategist.

  • Ông ấy là quân sư đáng tin cậy của vị tướng. (He is the general's trusted strategist.)

Variants and Related Words

• Quân đội (n): Army, military (as an institution).

  • Quân đội nhân dân Việt Nam. (The People's Army of Vietnam.)

• Quân nhân (n): Military personnel, serviceman/servicewoman.

  • Các quân nhân xuất ngũ. (The discharged military personnel.)

• Quân cờ (n): Chess piece; game piece.

  • Sắp xếp các quân cờ trên bàn. (Arrange the chess pieces on the board.)

Synonyms

• Army: armed force, troops, military.
• Piece: token, man (in board games), card.
• Fellow: character, individual, bunch (often derogatory).

Related Idioms

• Quân tử nhất ngôn: Literally "A gentleman's one word"; meaning a promise is a promise, one's word is one's bond. (Note: "quân" here is part of the compound "quân tử" meaning gentleman, showing a different, classical derivation).

  • Anh ta nói "quân tử nhất ngôn", hãy tin anh ấy. (He said "a promise is a promise," so trust him.)

• Quân xử thần tử, thần bất tử bất trung: A feudal dictum meaning "If the ruler orders the subject to die, the subject who does not die is disloyal." (Illustrates the historical hierarchical relationship).

  • Câu nói "quân xử thần tử" phản ánh tư tưởng phong kiến. (The saying "the ruler orders the subject to die" reflects feudal ideology.)

noun

1. army
   • quân ăn cướp
     a band of bandits. card;piece; man
   • quân cờ
     a cherssman