工兵

Chinese

		work; worker; skill work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labour	soldiers; a force; an army soldiers; a force; an army; weapons; arms; military; warlike
simp. and trad. (工兵)		工	兵
anagram		兵工

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gōngbīng

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄥ ㄅㄧㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gung¹ bing¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kang-peng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gōngbīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄥ ㄅㄧㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gongbing
    • Wade–Giles: kung¹-ping¹
    • Yale: gūng-bīng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gongbing
    • Palladius: гунбин (gunbin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵ piŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gung¹ bing¹
    • Yale: gūng bīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gung¹ bing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gung¹ bing¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵ pɪŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kang-peng
    • Tâi-lô: kang-ping
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kangpefng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² piɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kaŋ³³ piɪŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² piɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kaŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ piɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kaŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ piɪŋ⁴⁴/

Noun

工兵

1. combat engineer
2. (chiefly communism) Short for 工人 (gōngrén) + 士兵 (shìbīng): “worker and soldier”.

   工兵代表蘇維埃／工兵代表苏维埃  ―  gōngbīng dàibiǎo sūwéi'āi  ―  soviet of workers’ and soldiers’ deputies

See also

• (combat engineer): 工程兵 (gōngchéngbīng)
• (worker and soldier): 工農兵／工农兵 (gōngnóngbīng)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
工	兵
こう Grade: 2	へい Grade: 4

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) こーへー [kóꜜòhèè] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ko̞ːhe̞ː]

Noun

工(こう)兵(へい) • (kōhei) 

1. (military) sapper, combat engineer