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Chinese symbol for “corporal”

一级士官
yī jí shì guān
Traditional: 一級士官
corporal (army)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for corporal is 一级士官 (yī jí shì guān), defined as: corporal (army).

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

一 yī
one; a, an; alone
radical 1 ⼀ · 1 strokes
级 jí
level, rank; class, grade
radical 120 ⽷ · 6 strokes
士 shì
scholar, gentleman; soldier
radical 33 ⼠ · 3 strokes
官 guān
official, public servant
radical 40 ⼧ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 一级士官.

WordPinyinMeaning
一个 (一個)yī gea; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
一些yī xiēsome; a few; a little; (following an adjective) slightly ...er
一样 (一樣)yī yàngsame; like
一定yī dìngsurely; certainly; definitely; fixed; settled
一起yī qǐ(in) the same place; together; in company (with)
一直yī zhístraight (in a straight line); continuously; always; all the way through
高级 (高級)gāo jíhigh level; high grade
超级 (超級)chāo jísuper-; ultra-
人士rén shìperson; figure
官方guān fānggovernment; official (approved or issued by an authority)

See also: Japanese symbol for “corporal”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.