并 · bìng
combine, annex; also, what's more
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
combine, annex; also, what's more
- Mandarin
- bìng
- Cantonese
- bing6
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 并 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 병
- Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5E76
- Radical
- 干 · 51
- Strokes
- 6 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
6 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 并
Character connections
History & distinctions
Related forms
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- pjieng · 府盈 反切 · #923
- Middle Chinese
- pjiengH · 畀政 反切 · #2983
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 7321 · pjieng = 梗開三平清幫 · pjiengH = 梗開三去清幫
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- bìng
- kCantonese
- bing6
- kDefinition
- combine, annex; also, what's more
- kTotalStrokes
- 6
- kRSUnicode
- 51.5
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+4E26 U+4F75 U+5E76
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+5E76
- kTGH
- 2013:531
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- bīng 0076.010 · bìng 0079.010
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- bīng 024.200 · bìng 025.130
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- bìng(1420)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- bīng粵bing1 bìng粵bing3
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 府盈 畀政
- Kangxi positions
- 0340.031
- Guangyun positions
- 192.33 431.19
- GSR references
- 0824b
- Cangjie
- TT
- Four-corner
- 8044.1