Japanese symbol for “semiautomatic”
半自動小銃
はんじどうしょうじゅう
Romaji: hanjidoushoujuu
semiautomatic (gun)
In Japanese, semiautomatic is 半自動小銃, read はんじどうしょうじゅう (hanjidoushoujuu).
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Meanings
- n semiautomatic (gun)
Kanji and stroke order
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 半分 | はんぶん hanbun | half |
| 後半 | こうはん kouhan | second half; latter half |
| 前半 | ぜんはん zenhan | first half |
| 大半 | たいはん taihan | majority; more than half; most (of) |
| 半年 | はんとし hantoshi | half a year; six months |
| 半ば | なかば nakaba | middle; halfway; midway |
| 自分 | じぶん jibun | myself; yourself; oneself |
| 自身 | じしん jishin | (one's) self; oneself; yourself |
| 活動 | かつどう katsudou | activity (of a person, organization, animal, volcano, etc.); action; operation |
| 小説 | しょうせつ shousetsu | novel; story; (work of) fiction |
| 銃撃 | じゅうげき juugeki | shooting; gunning (down) |
See also: Chinese symbol for “semiautomatic”.
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.