兵

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 斤 (“a short axe (斧)”) + 廾 (“2 hands”) – a pair of hands holding a weapon.

Han character

兵 (radical 12 八+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人一金 (OMC), four-corner 7280₁, composition ⿳斤一八)

1. soldier, troops

References

• KangXi: page 127, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1462
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 244, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5175

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Cantonese

Hanzi

兵 (jyutping bing1, Yale bing1)

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Japanese

Kanji

兵 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: へい (hei), ひょう (hyō)
• Kun: つわもの (tsuwamono), いくさ (ikusa)

Noun

兵 (hiragana へい, romaji hei)

1. a soldier
2. a war machine; a weapon
3. a war
4. a soldier, but not officer; private; corporal; lance corporal

兵 (hiragana つわもの, romaji tsuwamono)

1. a war machine; a weapon
2. military ration
3. a brave and strong warrior
4. a stubborn person

兵 (hiragana ひょう, romaji hyō)

1. an another name for 歩(ふ, fu) in shogi

Synonyms

• 仗

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Korean

Hanja

兵 (hangeul 병, revised byeong, McCune-Reischauer pyŏng)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

兵 (pinyin bīng (bing1), jī (ji1), Wade-Giles ping¹, chi¹)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

兵 (*biæng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

兵 (binh, bênh, banh)

References

• Nom Foundation