新選組

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新 選 組
しん
Grade: 2 		せん
Grade: 4 		くみ > ぐみ
Grade: 2
on'yomi kun'yomi

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Etymology

From 新選 (shinsen, “new selection”) +‎ 組 (kumi, “group”).

The kumi changes to gumi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Noun

新(しん)選(せん)組(ぐみ) • (Shinsengumi) 

  1. (historical) a special police force organized by the shogunate during the Bakumatsu period
    • 2004 September 8, Hideaki Sorachi, “第(だい)十七訓(くん)　酔(よ)ってなくても酔(よ)ったふりして上(じょう)司(し)のヅラ取(と)れ [Lesson 17: Even If You’re Not Drunk, Pretend to Be, and Snatch Your Boss’s Toupée]”, in [銀](ぎん)[魂](たま) [Silver Soul], volume 3 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:
      じゃ君(きみ)らは＋(プラス)新(しん)選(せん)組(ぐみ)ソーセージだ！屯(とん)所(しょ)の冷(れい)蔵(ぞう)庫(こ)に入(はい)ってた
      要(よう)するに　ただのソーセージじゃねーか‼いるかァァァ‼
      Ja kimira wa Purasu-Shinsengumi sōsēji da! Tonsho no reizōko ni haitteta
      Yōsuru ni tada no sōsēji ja nē ka‼ Iru kaaaa‼
      Well, you guys can have a +Shinsengumi sausage! Stored in the fridge at our headquarters
      All of this just for a friggin’ sausage⁉ Are you kidding me⁉
    • 2010 December 8, Hideaki Sorachi, “第(だい)三百二十五訓(くん)　冬(ふゆ)休(やす)みあけも皆(みんな)けっこう大人(おとな)に見(み)える [Lesson 325: And Everyone Looks a Lot like a Grown-Up After Winter Vacation]”, in [銀](ぎん)[魂](たま) [Silver Soul], volume 37 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:
      それで色(いろ)々(いろ)考(かんが)えて生(い)き方(かた)もマヨネーズもカロリー½にしようと思(おも)って　その成(せい)果(か)あって今(いま)では新(しん)選(せん)組(ぐみ)仏(ほとけ)のパシリトシさんって呼(よ)ばれてるんだ
      結(けっ)局(きょく)地(ち)位(い)までカロリー０になってんでしょーが‼
      Sore de iroiro kangaete ikikata mo mayonēzu mo karorī nibun no ichi ni shiyō to suru omotte Sono seika atte ima wa Shinsengumi hotoke no pashiri Toshi-santte yobareterun da
      Kekkyoku chii made karorī zero ni natten deshō ga‼
      So I thought a lot over and decided to try calorie ½ on mayonnaise as well as my lifestyle. As a result, I am now the enlightened gofer of the Shinsengumi known as Toshi-san
      Your status has been down to calorie 0 from what I’m seeing‼

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