The Name Military in Chinese / Japanese...

現役軍人 means "Active Duty Soldier" or literally "Active Duty Military Person".

This title is a great way to show your pride in being an active duty member of the armed forces.

The first two characters mean "active duty" and the second two characters can be translated as "military personnel", "soldier", or "serviceman" (it is unisex, so male or female is not indicated).

軍 means army, military, or arms.

軍 is also a character used in the compound word that means "army general". It's the "gun" in the well-known Japanese title "Shogun" which means general.

See Also:  Shogun | Navy | Marine

This is a form of discipline which suggests training of the mind and character, aimed at producing self-control, obedience, etc.

One of my Chinese-English dictionaries even translates this as "tempering oneself" or turning yourself into hardened steel.

In old Korean Hanja, they use these characters in reverse order but with the same meaning. If you want the Korean version, please click this link instead of the button above: Korean version.

軍紀 means military discipline or military principles.

If maintaining your military discipline is important to you personally, or important to your military unit, this is the wall scroll to have up behind your desk. In fact, it's the kind of thing I expect to see behind the desk of a First Sergeant or maybe a hardcore NCO.

Note: In some rare context, it could be extended to mean "morale" but "discipline" is much closer to the commonly-held definition.

Note: This term is not well-known outside of the military services in Asia (not used by the common person).

See Also:  Self-Discipline

工兵 means the "engineering corps" of the army or other branch of the military.

The first character alone means work, worker, skill, profession, trade, craft, construction or labor. The second character means army, force or military.

軍事情報 is the full way to say "Military Intelligence".

The first two characters mean "military affairs".

The second two characters mean "intelligence" or "information-gathering".

If you work in the G2 section of your military unit, this is the wall scroll for you.

退伍軍人 is the Chinese title for a military veteran.

The first two characters mean, "retired from the ranks", or discharged.

The last two characters mean, serviceman, soldier, or military personnel.

If training or drill is important to you (especially for military drill and training), this might be just the thing for a drill master to hang behind his/her desk.

This term is universal in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja. It can also mean practice or exercise, depending on context.