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
- —皆兵制度system of universal conscription
- —細菌兵器bacteriological weapon
- —海外派兵troops overseas
- —宇宙兵器space weaponry
- —富国強兵enrich the country, strengthen the army
- —通常兵器conventional weapon
- —特殊兵器special weapon
- —秘密兵器secret weapon
- —兵站支援logistical support
- —歩兵師団infantry division
- —軽竜騏兵(Royal) light cavalry
- —兵隊勘定Dutch treat; going Dutch
- —驕兵必敗defeat is inevitable for an overconfident army; being arrogant and overconfident inevitably leads to defeat; pride comes before a fall
- —兵法指南instruction in martial arts
- —白兵主義strategy of close-quarters fighting
- —三韓出兵conquest of the three Koreas (legendary military invasion of the Korean kingdoms; 3rd century CE)
- —朝鮮出兵Imjin War (1592-1597)
- —核兵器国nuclear-weapon state
- —兵隊アリsoldier ant
- —台湾出兵Taiwan Expedition (punitive expedition by the Japanese military forces; 1874)