卒 — Chinese character
卒
zú
soldier; servant; at last, finally
- Pinyin
- zú
- Radical
- 24 ⼗ (Ten)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 亠 从 十
- Formation
- pictographic — A soldier in armor
- Japanese
- 卒 as a kanji
Common words with 卒
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 狱卒 (獄卒) | yù zú | jailer (old) |
| 士卒 | shì zú | soldier; private (army) |
| 无名小卒 (無名小卒) | wú míng xiǎo zú | insignificant soldier (idiom); a nobody |
| 身先士卒 | shēn xiān shì zú | to fight at the head of one's troops; (fig.) to take the lead |
| 小卒 | xiǎo zú | foot soldier; minor figure |
| 卒业 (卒業) | zú yè | to complete a course of study (old); to graduate |
| 兵卒 | bīng zú | soldiers; troops |
| 马前卒 (馬前卒) | mǎ qián zú | lackey; errand boy |
| 走卒 | zǒu zú | pawn (i.e. foot soldier); servant |
| 仓卒 (倉卒) | cāng cù | variant of 仓促 (cāng cù) |
| 戍卒 | shù zú | garrison soldier |
| 暴卒 | bào zú | to die of sudden illness; to die suddenly |
English words written with 卒
卒 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · Art of War 19 · Mencius 6 · Zhuangzi 30
- Analects 19.12
- Art of War 1.13
- Art of War 2.17
- Art of War 3.1
- Art of War 5.20
- Art of War 7.34
- Art of War 9.42
- Art of War 10.16
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.