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
- —一兵士ordinary soldier; mere soldier
- —軽歩兵light infantry
- —学徒兵student soldier (in WWII)
- —軍兵士army soldier
- —伝令兵runner (soldier responsible for delivering messages)
- —日本兵Japanese soldier
- —整備兵maintenance engineer; ground crew
- —航空兵airman; airwoman; aviator
- —飛行兵military aviator
- —脱営兵deserter
- —閲兵式military review; troop review; (military) parade
- —弓騎兵mounted archer; horse archer
- —巨神兵God Warrior (fictional beings in Hayao Miyazaki's manga Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind)
- —超兵器superweapon
- —兵法書book on military strategy; treatise on the art of war
- —ゲリラ兵guerrilla
- —下士官兵enlisted man
- —原子兵器atomic weapons
- —上等兵曹chief petty officer
- —生物兵器biological weapon