WordTaiwan frequency #18,829
子弟兵
ㄗˇ ㄉㄧˋ ㄅㄧㄥ
“army recruited from local youth; troops drawn from one's own community; people one has personally trained and nurtured”
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子
ㄗˇ
Son; child; offspring; seed; noun suffix attached to nouns, verbs, adjectives, or classifiers; first of the twelve earthly branches; ancient Chinese compass point for north.
弟
ㄉㄧˋ
Younger brother; junior male relative; a modest self-reference for 'I' in letters; sometimes refers to a younger female relative; can mean disciple or student; also refers to respecting elder brothers.
兵
ㄅㄧㄥ
Soldiers; troops; an army; weapons; military affairs; warlike.
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Words sharing these characters
Vocabulary built from the same characters — most common first
- 孩子ㄏㄞˊ ㄗˇchild; a young person who is not yet an adult; offspring; son or daughter
- 兒子ㄦˊ ㄗˇson; male child of a parent; a boy in relation to his parents
- 男子ㄋㄢˊ ㄗˇa man; a male; (in some contexts, especially Taiwan) a son
- 妻子ㄑㄧ ㄗˇwife; a married woman in relation to her husband; (archaic or literary) wife and children
- 電子ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄗˇelectronic; relating to devices or systems using circuits, semiconductors, or computers; electron (particle physics).
- 房子house; building; apartment; room; a residential structure where people live or a space used for a specific purpose
- 女子ㄋㄩˇ ㄗˇwoman; female; (dated) unmarried or virgin woman.
- 兄弟ㄒㄩㄥ ㄉㄧˋbrothers; younger brother; a humble self-reference used by men; brotherly; fraternal; male cousins or relatives; states sharing the same surname
- 樣子ㄧㄤˋ ㄗˇappearance; look; the way someone or something looks; manner; pattern; model; style; kind; sort; roughly; about (used before numbers to indicate approximation)
- 日子ㄖˋ ㄗˇday; a calendar date; days of one's life; time; period; livelihood; daily life
- 例子example; instance; case used as evidence or illustration.
- 這樣子ㄓㄜˋ ㄧㄤˋ ㄗˇlike this; in this way; so; such (used to describe manner, state, or degree)