兵へい隊たいアリ

Kanji

• 兵soldier, private, troops
• 隊regiment, party, company
• 蟻ant

Related words

• 働はたらきアリ

  Worker ant, responsible for foraging and nest maintenance, unlike the soldier ant which focuses on defense.

Written forms

• 兵へい隊たいアリ

  Standard mixed kanji-katakana spelling for 'soldier ant'.

• 兵へい隊たい蟻あり

  Full kanji spelling; the character 蟻 is less common in everyday writing.

• へいたいあり

Etymology

Compound of 兵隊 (soldier) and アリ (ant).