機き関かん銃じゅう

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Meanings

1

A fully automatic firearm that fires rifle-caliber rounds; used in military and action contexts.

敵てきの機き関かん銃じゅうが激はげしく火ひを噴ふいた。
The enemy machine gun fired fiercely.
その戦せん車しゃには機き関かん銃じゅうが搭とう載さいされている。
The tank is equipped with a machine gun.

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Usage patterns

機き関かん銃じゅうを撃うつto fire a machine gun
兵へい士したちは丘おかの上うえから機き関かん銃じゅうを撃うった。
The soldiers fired a machine gun from atop the hill.
機き関かん銃じゅうを構かまえるto level/aim a machine gun
兵へい士しは塹ざん壕ごうの中なかで機き関かん銃じゅうを構かまえていた。
The soldier had his machine gun ready in the trench.
機き関かん銃じゅうで〈人ひと〉を撃うつto shoot someone with a machine gun
敵てきは機き関かん銃じゅうで味み方かたを撃うってきた。
The enemy opened fire on our men with a machine gun.

Kanji

機loom, mechanism, machine
関connection, barrier, gateway
銃gun, arms

Related words

マシンガン
機関銃 is the native Japanese, formal/technical term for a machine gun, while マシンガン is the more casual loanword often used in games and action media.
トミーガン
機関銃 is the broad category term for machine guns in general, whereas トミーガン names one specific historic submachine gun model.

Don't confuse with

小しょう銃じゅう
小銃 is a shoulder-fired rifle for a single soldier, while 機関銃 is a heavier, fully automatic gun that fires continuously.
拳けん銃じゅう
拳銃 is a small handgun carried and fired with one hand, while 機関銃 is a large automatic weapon usually mounted or braced.

Counted with

丁ちょう
counter for long, narrow objects

Word family

Built from

機き関かん+銃じゅう

Etymology

Compound of 機関 (mechanism, engine) and 銃 (gun), literally 'mechanism gun'. The term was coined in the late 19th century as a calque of 'machine gun'.