并
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and; furthermore; also; together with; (not) at all; simultaneously; to combine; to join; to merge
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 干 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 並
- Common rank
- #1,068
- Unicode
- U+5E76
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Formation & memory
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How 并 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Simplified form of 並; two men standing side-by-side
How to remember it
combine · Heisig RSH #863
animal horns + two hands — as a component also called: puzzle
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 并
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 中西合并 | Chinese-Western fusion | |
| 三江并流 | the Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas, a region in northwestern Yunnan where… | |
| 并行口 | parallel port (computing) | |
| 连三并四 | one after the other; in succession (idiom) | |
| 相提并论 | to discuss two disparate things together (idiom); to mention on equal terms; to place on a… | |
| 并发症 | complications (undesired side-effect of medical procedure) | |
| 合并症 | complication (medicine) | |
| 并行计算 | parallel computing; (Tw) concurrent computing | |
| 并发计算 | concurrent computing | |
| 齐头并进 | to go forward together (idiom); to undertake simultaneous tasks; going hand in hand | |
| 并不 | not at all; by no means | |
| 一并 | variant of 一併|一并[yi1 bing4] | |
| 一并 | to lump together; to treat along with all the others | |
| 并行 | to proceed in parallel; side by side (of two processes, developments, thoughts etc) | |
| 并发 | to happen simultaneously | |
| 并发 | to happen simultaneously; (medicine) (of one disease) to be complicated by (another); (of … | |
| 并口 | parallel port (computing) | |
| 合并 | variant of 合併|合并[he2 bing4] | |
| 合并 | to merge; to annex | |
| 土洋并举 | combining native and foreign methods |
Sound family
These characters use 并 as their sound component — compare how they read.