将しょう

Meanings

Usage patterns

• 〈人ひと〉、将しょうとなるfor someone to become a commander/leader

  彼かれはやがて軍ぐんを率ひきいる将しょうとなった。

  He eventually became the general leading the army.

Expressions

• 将しょう中ちゅうに将しょうたるto be a leader among leaders
• 一いっ将しょう功こう成なって万ばん骨こつ枯かるthousands die to make one hero; one general reaches glory, ten thousand bones are left to dry
• 一いっ将しょう功こう成なりて万ばん骨こつ枯かるthousands die to make one hero
• 敗はい軍ぐんの将しょうは兵へいを語かたらずdon't be a sore loser; don't make excuses for your failures; a defeated general should not talk of strategy
• 将しょうを射いんと欲ほっすれば先まず馬うまを射いよif you want to shoot the general, first shoot his horse; do not shoot straight for the top; he that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin