兵 (bīng): meaning and stroke order
兵 (bīng) means soldiers, a force, an army, weapons, arms, military, warlike, 个.
兵
- Simplified
- 兵
- Traditional
- 兵 (same form)
- Pinyin
- bīng
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Stroke order of 兵
兵
- bīng soldiers; a force
- 7 strokes
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Meaning of 兵
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bīng
- soldiers
- a force
- an army
- weapons
- arms
- military
- warlike
- CL:個|个[ge4]
Radical and structure
- 兵
- Radical 八 (Kangxi radical 12) · 7 strokes · 丘 on top, 八 below
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 兵
- 兵书 bīng shū a book on the art of war
- 士兵 shì bīng soldier; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 带兵 dài bīng to lead troops
- 纸上谈兵 zhǐ shàng tán bīng lit. military tactics on paper (idiom); fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice
- 虾兵蟹将 xiā bīng xiè jiàng shrimp soldiers and crab generals (in mythology or popular fiction, the army of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea); useless troops (idiom)
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).