bìng
side by side
Depits two people standing (立) side by side.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b]ˤeŋʔ | bengX | bìng | side by side, together |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 86.3848% of movies
294th most common character in movies
141st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+4E26 |
Shuowen | “竝,併也。从二立。” |
Sources
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