Practice JLPTMeaning
浪人 (ろうにん, rounin) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “lordless samurai; unsuccessful examinee”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 11
息子は 1 年 浪人しました
My son failed his university exams so he's retaking them in a year.
私は今浪人生です。
I got left back.
浪人.私は今浪人生です。
I am a student who failed the entrance exams and am studying to take them again.2
その後、一時期浪人した。
Afterward, he became a ronin(masterless samurai) for a while.
浪人頭…諸国からの浪人を統率する。
Ronin gashira (in charge of leading Ronin (masterless samurai)…organized and lead ronin(masterless samurai) across the country.
八月、戸籍の作成、浮浪人を取り締まる。
In August, family registers were created and vagrants were regulated.
流浪人（流れ者の意味）の語源はここから来ている。
The term of
牢人 who wandered around came to be called 浪人.これらの士族の事も浪人と言う。
These Shizoku class persons were also called
牢人 and 浪人 each had a different meaning.その為浮浪する牢人を浪人と呼ぶようになった。
Therefore, the
流浪人 (ruronin: meaing a wanderer) originates here.したがって牢人と浪人は正確には別義である。
Therefore, correctly,
年浪人生活をした. I have spent two years preparing for the entrance examinations after I left high school.自称、京都浪人17歳。
He called himself a ronin (masterless samurai) of 17 years in Kyoto.