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兵
兵
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Han character
兵 (radical 12 八+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人一金 (OMC), four-corner 72801, composition ⿱丘八)
References
- KangXi: page 127, character 10
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1462
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 244, character 4
- Unihan data for U+5175
Chinese
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兵 | |
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Glyph origin
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References:
Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (兵) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 浜 | *praːŋ, *praːŋʔ |
| 捠 | *praːŋ |
| 兵 | *praŋ |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 斤 (“a short axe (斧)”) + 廾 (“2 hands”) – a pair of hands holding a weapon.
Derivatives: 乒 (pīng), 乓 (pāng).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): bing1
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pîn
- Min Dong (BUC): bĭng
- Min Nan (POJ): peng
- Wu (Wiktionary): pin (T1)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄥ
- Wade-Giles: ping1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bing
- IPA (key): /piŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing, erhua-ed)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄥㄦ
- Wade-Giles: pingrh1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biengl
- IPA (key): /pjɤ̃ɻ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: bing1
- Yale: bīng
- Cantonese Pinyin: bing1
- IPA (key): /pɪŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pîn
- Hakka Romanization System: bin´
- Hagfa Pinyim: bin1
- IPA: /pin²⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: bĭng
- IPA (key): /piŋ⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: peng
- Tâi-lô: ping
- Phofsit Daibuun: pefng
- IPA (Xiamen): /piɪŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /piɪŋ³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /piɪŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /piɪŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /piɪŋ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: pin (T1)
- IPA (key): /pɪɲ⁵³/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 兵 |
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| Mandarin | Beijing | /piŋ⁵⁵/ |
| Harbin | /piŋ⁴⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /piŋ²¹/ | |
| Jinan | /piŋ²¹³/ | |
| Qingdao | /piŋ²¹³/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /piŋ²⁴/ | |
| Xi'an | /piŋ²¹/ | |
| Xining | /piə̃⁴⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /piŋ⁴⁴/ | |
| Lanzhou | /pĩn³¹/ | |
| Ürümqi | /piŋ⁴⁴/ | |
| Wuhan | /pin⁵⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /pin⁵⁵/ | |
| Guiyang | /pin⁵⁵/ | |
| Kunming | /pĩ/ | |
| Nanjing | /pin³¹/ | |
| Hefei | /pin²¹/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /piəŋ¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | /piŋ¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /pĩŋ³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /piŋ⁵³/ |
| Suzhou | /pin⁵⁵/ | |
| Hangzhou | /pin³³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /peŋ³³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /piʌ̃³¹/ |
| Tunxi | /pɛ¹¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /pin³³/ |
| Xiangtan | /pin³³/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /pin⁴²/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /pin⁴⁴/ |
| Taoyuan | /pin²⁴/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /peŋ⁵³/ |
| Nanning | /peŋ⁵⁵/ | |
| Hong Kong | /piŋ⁵⁵/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /piŋ⁵⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /piŋ⁴⁴/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /peiŋ⁵⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /piã³³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) |
/ʔbeŋ²³/ /ʔbia²³/ |
| Rime | |
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| Character | 兵 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 庚 (111) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 甫明切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/pˠiæŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/pᵚiaŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/piaŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/piajŋ/ |
| Li Rong |
/piɐŋ/ |
| Wang Li |
/pĭɐŋ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/pi̯ɐŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
bīng |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 兵 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
bīng |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ pjæng › |
| Old Chinese |
/*praŋ/ |
| English | weapon |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 兵 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 865 |
| Phonetic component |
兵 |
| Rime group |
陽 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
兵 |
| Old Chinese |
/*praŋ/ |
Definitions
兵
Compounds
Derived terms from 兵
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Japanese
Kanji
兵
Readings
Noun
- a soldier
- a war machine; a weapon
- a war
- a soldier, but not officer; private; corporal; lance corporal
兵 (hiragana つわもの, romaji tsuwamono)
Synonyms
Korean
Hanja
兵 • (byeong) (hangeul 병, McCune-Reischauer pyŏng)
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Vietnamese
Han character
兵 (binh, trân)
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