士兵 shìbīng▶ soldados

Stroke order

士兵 is written in 10 strokes across 2 characters.

• 士 — 3 strokes
• 兵 — 7 strokes

Related words

• 女士Señora
• 人士Personaje
• 博士médico
• 护士Enfermera; enfermero
• 硕士maestro
• 绅士caballero

士兵 is pronounced shìbīng and means “soldados”. You will meet it in HSK 5, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 士兵 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.