Correct

三八式

/ sān bā shì /
Strokes

Example

As a Noun

38-rifle [a Japanese rifle made in the 38th year of Showa(昭和)]

1
Liǎng
zhī
sānshì
三八式

two 38-rifles

As an Adjective

thirty-eighter [of a person who joined the revolution around the year of 1938]

2
de
qīn
父亲
shì
sānshì
三八式
gàn
干部
  

His father is a thirty-eighter.