兵
bīng HSK4

soldier

兵 bīng
army noun
a body of troops, an army, or military force

老将军亲自率领精兵驻扎在城外。

lǎo jiāng​jūn qīn​zì shuài​lǐng jīng bīng zhù​zhā zài chéng wài.

The old general personally led his elite troops to station outside the city.

military noun
relating to war, military strategy, or being warlike

《孙子兵法》是中国古代著名的军事著作。

《 Sūn​zǐ bīng fǎ》 shì Zhōng​guó gǔ​dài zhù​míng de jūn​shì zhù​zuò.

'The Art of War' is a famous ancient Chinese military work.

soldier verb
a soldier or private

他高中毕业后就去参军当兵了。

tā gāo​zhōng bì​yè hòu jiù qù cān​jūn dāng bīng le.

He joined the army right after graduating from high school.

weapon idiom
weapons, arms, or tools of war

双方在狭窄的巷子里展开了短兵相接的战斗。

shuāng​fāng zài xiá​zhǎi de xiàng​zi lǐ zhǎn​kāi le duǎn​bīng​xiāng​jiē de zhàn​dòu.

The two sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat in the narrow alley.

Cross-References

Classifier

Frequency
Character
Written text
398th most common 552.9 per million
Movie subtitles
990th most common 105.6 per million appears in 22% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
26.2 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
55.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5175

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)