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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)

米海兵隊べいかいへいたい

US Marine Corps

歩兵戦闘車両ほへいせんとうしゃりょう

infantry fighting vehicle

infantry

artillery

militia

field artillery

reservist

臨兵闘者皆陣列在前りんぴょうとうしゃかいじんれつざいぜん

may the presiders over warriors be my vanguard (nine-character charm chanted to ward off evil)

armed forces

picked troops

heavy drinker

(army) provisions

dispatch of troops

supreme military power

国民皆兵こくみんかいへい

universal conscription

近衛兵このえへい

Imperial Guard (Meiji)

tactics

officers and men

manufacture of arms

enlisted man

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