Kanji1 / 7
兵 kanji
soldier, private, troops, army, warfare, strategy, tactics
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
ヘイヒョウ
Kun readings
つわもの
Words with 兵
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —警備兵guard (soldier)
- —負傷兵injured soldier
- —黒人兵black (i.e. African-American) soldier; buffalo soldier
- —兵馬俑terracotta army (clay figurines found near the mausoleum of the first Qin emperor in China); terracotta warriors and horses
- —帝国兵imperial soldier
- —当番兵batman; officer's orderly
- —特技兵specialist (US Army enlisted rank)
- —兵法者tactician; strategist; master swordsman
- —奇兵隊kiheitai (irregular militia during the Bakumatsu period)
- —輜重兵Transportation Corps (service branch of the Imperial Japanese Army)
- —海兵団marines (former Japanese Navy)
- —空挺兵paratrooper
- —衛兵所guardhouse; guardroom
- —少年兵child soldier
- —徴兵令conscription ordinance; conscription law; draft; Conscription Ordinance (1873-1927)
- —兵役法Military Service Law (1927-1945)
- —擲弾兵grenadier; grenade thrower
- —一兵卒private; foot soldier; infantryman; underling; low level worker; minor player
- —古参兵long-serving soldier; veteran
- —国民兵militiaman