The kanji 兵: meaning, readings and stroke order
兵
- Meaning
- soldier
- On reading
- ヘイ hei、ヒョウ hyou
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 八 eight
- Level
- Level 4 · grade 4
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- binh lính (binh)
- Japanese
- へいたい。
- Korean
- 병사, 군인 (병)
- Chinese
- 士兵
Readings, words and example sentences
ヘイ hei · on reading · less common
兵隊
soldiers
話の 中に 兵隊が 出て きます。
Soldiers appear in the story.
ヒョウ hyou · on reading
兵庫
Hyogo (a prefecture)
兵庫は 港が 有名です。
Hyogo is famous for its ports.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.