Chinese Character Wiki
兵

bīng

soldier

Pictograph of two hands (廾) holding a weapon.

Components
斤 iconic component

斤  Iconic component

jīn

  

axe

Depicts a weapon.

廾 iconic component

廾  Iconic component

gǒng

  

two hands

Depicts two hands.

Evolution

兵 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
兵 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
兵 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
兵 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
兵 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

兵  

bīng

soldier, troops; soldiers; a force; an army; weapons; arms; military; warlike; CL:個|个[gè]

Most common words with 兵
Freq.
Word
Meaning

士兵

soldier

兵

soldiers

官兵

officers and men

骑兵

cavalry

民兵

militia

Component uses

Sound component in 4 characters (3 verified)

宾 乒 乓 浜

Remnant component in 2 characters (2 verified)

乒 乓

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*praŋ

pjaeng

bīng

weapon


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 22.0567% of movies

990th most common character in movies

398th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+5175

Shuowen

“，械也。从廾持斤，并力之皃。，古文兵从人、廾、干。兵，籀文。”


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