Illustration: On a Japanese military training ground, a young soldier in field uniform and helmet kneels beside a low earthen embankment with a rifle safely angled toward the ground. Two members of the same unit wait behind, carrying matching packs and watching a hand signal from farther ahead.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

兵へい

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soldier

Example sentences

彼かれらは脱走だっそう兵へいだったんだ。
They were deserters.
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負傷ふしょう兵へい達たちは戦場せんじょうに取とり残のこされた。
The wounded soldiers were left in the field.
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狙撃そげき兵へいは白しろいヴァンを運転うんてんしている。
The sniper is driving a white van.
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Kanji in 兵

兵soldier; privateOnヘイ・ヒョウKunつわもの

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