兵 — soldier, private, troops

へい兵 soldier

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 7 strokes war

U+5175 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #522 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1429 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

soldier
private
troops
army
warfare
strategy
tactics

word

へい hei On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

兵(へい) hei soldier 兵(へい) 器(き) heiki weapon 兵(へい) 士(し) heishi soldier 兵(へい) 隊(たい) heitai soldier 兵(へい) 力(りょく) heiryoku military strength 米(べい) 兵(へい) beihei American soldier 派(は) 兵(へい) hahei dispatch of troops 核(かく) 兵(へい) 器(き) kakuheiki nuclear weapon

ひょう hyou On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

兵(ひょう) 庫(ご) hyougo Hyogo 兵(ひょう) 衛(え) hyoue palace guard

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

おか丘 hill

はち八 eight #12

Used as component in (1)

はま浜 seacoast

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#12 八 eight