HSK 6 · Society

武装 wǔzhuāng “armed forces” in Chinese

Traditional 武裝

What 武装 means

  1. armed forces
  2. to arm
  3. armed
  4. arms
  5. equipment
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • military

How to say 武装

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale武wǔ3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale装zhuāng1st tone, high and level

武装 in a sentence

  1. 他武装到牙齿。

    Tā wǔzhuāng dào yáchǐ.

    He’s armed to the teeth.

    Sentence #6098464 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 武装 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 武 (wǔ) with each of its parts in a different colour
武wǔmartial
  • 一one · yī
  • 弋shoot · yì
  • 止stop · zhǐ
The character 装 (zhuāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
装zhuāngadornment
  • 壮big · zhuàngSound part
  • 衣clothes · yīMeaning part

衣 hints at the meaning (clothes); 壮 (zhuàng) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhuāng.

How to write 武装

武 8 strokes · 装 12 strokes

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武装 (wǔzhuāng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 武装 (wǔzhuāng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 武装

Words with 武

武术wǔshù · martial arts武侠wǔxiá · martial arts hero武器wǔqì · weapon

Words with 装

装zhuāng · to pretend服装fúzhuāng · dress假装jiǎzhuāng · to feign安装ānzhuāng · to install装修zhuāngxiū · to renovate装饰zhuāngshì · to decorate装卸zhuāngxiè · to load and unload包装bāozhuāng · packaging装备zhuāngbèi · equipment

More words: Society & Law

团体tuántǐ · group违背wéibèi · to go against伪造wěizào · to forge诬陷wūxiàn · to frame宪法xiànfǎ · constitution陷害xiànhài · to frame嫌疑xiányí · suspicion消防xiāofáng · firefighting

FAQs

武装 (wǔzhuāng) means “armed forces” or “to arm”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it wǔzhuāng: wǔ with a 3rd tone, then zhuāng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 武装 is written 武裝. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type wuzhuang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 武装 from the suggestions. Typing wuzhuang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
武装 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.