出征

Chinese

		to go out; to come out; to occur to go out; to come out; to occur; to produce; to go beyond; to rise; to put forth; to happen; (a measure word for dramas, plays, or operas)	attack; levy (troops or taxes); journey attack; levy (troops or taxes); journey; trip; expedition
simp. and trad. (出征)		出	征

Etymology

"to cyberbully": Originally referring to the meme war organized by netizens on the Li Yi Bar of Baidu Tieba against Taiwanese netizens in 2016.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chūzhēng

(Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄓㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ceot¹ zing¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhut-chṳ̂n
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhut-cheng

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chūzhēng
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄓㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chujheng
  - Wade–Giles: chʻu¹-chêng¹
  - Yale: chū-jēng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chujeng
  - Palladius: чучжэн (čučžɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ceot¹ zing¹
  - Yale: chēut jīng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsoet⁷ dzing¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: cêd¹ jing¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɵt̚⁵ t͡sɪŋ⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhut-chṳ̂n
  - Hakka Romanization System: cud^ˋ ziin^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: cud⁵ zin¹
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰut̚² t͡sɨn²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhut-cheng
  - Tâi-lô: tshut-tsing
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhutzefng
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰut̚³²⁻⁴ t͡siɪŋ⁴⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰut̚⁵⁻²⁴ t͡siɪŋ³³/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰut̚³²⁻⁵ t͡siɪŋ⁴⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰut̚³²⁻⁴ t͡siɪŋ⁴⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰut̚³²⁻⁴ t͡siɪŋ⁴⁴/

Verb

出征

to go on an expedition; go out to battle; to go to the front
to go out to participate in a sports competition
(neologism, Internet slang) to attack a certain person or a certain group of people on social media; to cyberbully someone

Antonyms

(antonym(s) of “to go on an expedition”): (literary) 班師／班师 (bānshī)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
出	征
しゅつ > しゅっ Grade: 1	せい Grade: S
on'yomi

Noun

出(しゅっ)征(せい) • (shussei)

joining a military and going to war

Verb

出(しゅっ)征(せい)する • (shussei suru) suru (stem 出(しゅっ)征(せい)し (shussei shi), past 出(しゅっ)征(せい)した (shussei shita))

to go to the front

Conjugation

Conjugation of "出征する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	出征し	しゅっせいし	shussei shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	出征し	しゅっせいし	shussei shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	出征する	しゅっせいする	shussei suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	出征する	しゅっせいする	shussei suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	出征すれ	しゅっせいすれ	shussei sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	出征せよ¹ 出征しろ²	しゅっせいせよ¹ しゅっせいしろ²	shussei seyo¹ shussei shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	出征される	しゅっせいされる	shussei sareru
Causative	出征させる出征さす	しゅっせいさせるしゅっせいさす	shussei saseru shussei sasu
Potential	出征できる	しゅっせいできる	shussei dekiru
Volitional	出征しよう	しゅっせいしよう	shussei shiyō
Negative	出征しない	しゅっせいしない	shussei shinai
Negative continuative	出征せず	しゅっせいせず	shussei sezu
Formal	出征します	しゅっせいします	shussei shimasu
Perfective	出征した	しゅっせいした	shussei shita
Conjunctive	出征して	しゅっせいして	shussei shite
Hypothetical conditional	出征すれば	しゅっせいすれば	shussei sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

“出征”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026