征

Meaning

征 centers on using force or authority to bring something under control: subjugating enemies, attacking rebels, or collecting taxes as an assertion of power.

• 遠征えんせい

  (military) expedition; campaign

• 征服せいふく
  N1

  conquest; subjugation

• 征しちょう

  ladder

• 出征しゅっせい

  going to war; departure for the front

• 征伐せいばつ

  conquest; subjugation; overcoming

• 征夷大将軍せいいたいしょうぐん

  commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force against the barbarians (beginning in 794 CE)

• 東征とうせい

  eastern expedition; military campaign to the east

• 長征ちょうせい

  lengthy military expedition

• ノルマン征服ノルマンせいふく

  Norman Conquest

• ロシア遠征ロシアえんせい

  Napoleon's Invasion of Russia (1812)

• 三韓征伐さんかんせいばつ

  conquest of the three Koreas (legendary military invasion of the Korean kingdoms; 3rd century CE)

• 世界征服せかいせいふく

  world conquest; world domination; taking over the world

• 再征さいせい

  second punitive expedition

• 出征家族しゅっせいかぞく

  family of a soldier at the front

• 出征軍しゅっせいぐん

  army in the field

• 出征軍人しゅっせいぐんじん

  soldier at the front

• 北征ほくせい

  northern expedition; military campaign to the north

• 南征なんせい

  southern expedition; military campaign to the south

• 南征北伐なんせいほくばつ

  attacking in all directions

• 外征がいせい

  foreign campaign

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