兼 - Dong Chinese dictionary

jiān

double

Depicts a hand (又) holding two stalks of grain (禾).

Components

禾 Iconic component

hé

grain stalk

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 禾 than it was in ancient scripts.

禾 Iconic component

hé

grain stalk

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 禾 than it was in ancient scripts.

又 Iconic component

yòu

(hand), again

Depicts a hand.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 又 than it was in ancient scripts.

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

兼

jiān

unite, combine; connect; and; double; twice; simultaneous; holding two or more (official) posts at the same time

Most common words with 兼

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	兼	double
	兼职	concurrent job
	兼顾	to attend simultaneously to two or more things
	兼并	to annex
	兼容	compatible

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

搛

Sound component in 12 characters (5 verified)

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Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[k]ˤem	kem	jiān	combine; at the same time

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 8.9540% of movies

2162nd most common character in movies

1515th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	10
Unicode	U+517C
Shuowen	“兼，并也。从又持秝。兼，持二禾。秉，持一禾。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

裘錫圭 "Chinese Writing" p.188

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