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

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: gōngbīng
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄥㄅㄧㄥ
  - 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

combat engineer
(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)

(military) sapper, combat engineer