拳銃

Japanese

Kanji in this term
拳	銃
けん Grade: S	じゅう Grade: S
kan'on	kan'yōon

Alternative spelling
けん銃

Etymology

From 拳 (ken, “fist”) +‎ 銃 (jū, “gun”).

Appeared in 五国対照兵語字書 (Gokoku Taishō Heigo Jisho) of 1881 as a translation of French pistolet.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) けんじゅう [kèńjúú] (Heiban – [0])^[4]^[2]
IPA^(key): [kẽ̞ɲ̟d͡ʑɨː]

Noun

拳(けん)銃(じゅう) • (kenjū) ^{←けんじゆう (kenzyuu)^?} (counter 丁／挺)

(firearms) a handgun
Synonyms: ピストル (pisutoru), 短銃 (tanjū)
- 2004 July 7, Nobuhiro Watsuki, “第(だい)26(にじゅうろく)話(わ)　トレーニング・デイ [Chapter 26: Training Day]”, in 武(ブ)装(ソウ)錬(レン)金(キン) [Armed Alchemy], volume 3, Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 161:
  
  拳(けん)銃(じゅう)は最(さい)後(ご)の武(ぶ)器(き)！銃(じゅう)口(こう)を人(ひと)に向(む)けてはダメ！
  Kenjū wa saigo no buki! Jūkō o hito ni mukete wa dame!
  Handguns are weapons of last resort! Do not casually point muzzles at people!

Derived terms

自(じ)動(どう)拳(けん)銃(じゅう) (jidō kenjū)

See also

リボルバー (riborubā)

References

^ “五国対照兵語字書〔本編〕”, in 国立国会図書館デジタルコレクション (“National Diet Library Digital Collections”)‎^[1], 参謀本部, 8 February 1881, page 740
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ “拳銃”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎^[2] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2011), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Seventh edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
拳	銃

Noun

拳銃 • (gwonchong) (hangeul 권총)

hanja form^? of 권총 (“pistol, handgun”)