(sumo) a lacquered wooden fan used for signaling by the 行司 (gyōji, “sumo referee”) / (warfare) a rigid fan used for military signaling / a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) featuring a gunbai uchiwa design

instructions, indication

a rigid hand fan that does not fold / short for 軍配団扇 (gunbai uchiwa): a rigid fan used for military signaling

the act of signaling directions or commands to an armed force / a person issuing such directions / the act of advancing or retreating in response to the situation

to signal directions or commands to an armed force / to advance or retreat in response to the situation / to change one's prices in response to the situation: to bargain, to haggle

prescribe, dictate

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

(archaic) a battle, conflict, fight, war