bìng
combine
Simplified form of 並. Depicts two people standing, one behind another.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*peŋ | pjieng | bīng | combine two things |
*peŋ-s | pjiengH | bìng | combine two things |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 86.3848% of movies
294th most common character in movies
141st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+5E76 |
Shuowen | “幷,相從也。从从,幵聲。一曰从持二為幷。” |
Sources
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