兵

Translingual

Stroke order

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		兵

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bīng (bing¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bing¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): pîn
• Min Nan (POJ): peng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄥ
    • Wade-Giles: ping¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bing
    • IPA ^(key): /piŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bing¹
    • Yale: bīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bing¹
    • IPA ^(key): /pɪŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pîn
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /pin²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: peng
    • Tâi-lô: ping
    • IPA (Taipei): /pɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɪŋ³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (兵, reconstructed)
Character (兵), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 幫 (1) Final: 庚 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 甫明切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/pɣiæŋ/	/pi̯ɐŋ/	/piɐŋ/	/pɯiaŋ/	/piajŋ/	/pĭɐŋ/	/piaŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (兵, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
兵								bīng								‹ pjæng ›								/*praŋ/								weapon
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
兵					865					兵					陽					0					兵					/*praŋ/

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Japanese

Kanji

兵

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: ひょう (hyō)
• Kan’on: へい (hei)
• 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. another name for 歩(ふ, fu) in shogi

Synonyms

• 仗

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

兵 (binh, bênh, banh)

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References

• Nom Foundation