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兵

JLPT N2 SL4 7 strokes Frequency: #522

Meanings

Soldier, Private, Troops, Army, Warfare, Strategy, Tactics

Radicals

八

Decomposition

⿱丘八

Etymology

Ideographic: Two hands 八 holding an axe 丘

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 7

Stroke Order

1 diagonal right-to-left

2 vertical right-to-left

3 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

4 vertical right-to-left

5 horizontal bottom-to-top

6 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

7 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ヒョウ hyou

ヘイ hei

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

つわもの tsuwamono

Words Using This Kanji

335 words total

Other (20 words)

兵農分離へいのうぶんり

separation of farmers and samurai (system in effect from the Azuchi-Momoyama period until the Edo period)

特技兵とくぎへい

specialist (US Army enlisted rank)

民兵組織みんぺいそしき

militia

国際連合大量破壊兵器廃棄特別委員会こくさいれんごうたいりょうはかいへいきはいきとくべついいんかい

United Nations Special Commission

兵法者へいほうしゃ

tactician

奇兵隊きへいたい

kiheitai (irregular militia during the Bakumatsu period)

兵隊人形へいたいにんぎょう

toy soldier

神兵しんぺい

soldier dispatched by a god

病兵びょうへい

sick soldier

横兵庫よこひょうご

yokohyōgo

海兵団かいへいだん

marines (former Japanese Navy)

anti-aircraft weapon

inhumane weapons

non-lethal weapon

razorfish (Aeoliscus strigatus)

州兵しゅうへい

National Guard (esp. USA)

兵役逃れへいえきのがれ

evading military service

徴兵逃れちょうへいのがれ

evading military service

むっつり助兵衛むっつりすけべえ

lecher with a quiet exterior

助兵衛根性すけべえこんじょう

lechery

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