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See also: 幷, 並, 併, 井, 开, and 倂

并 U+5E76, 并
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E76
← 幵
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 幷 →

Translingual

Stroke order
8 strokes

Han character

并 (Kangxi radical 51, 干+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 廿廿 (TT) or 難廿廿 (XTT), four-corner 80441, composition ⿱丷开 or ⿱䒑廾)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 340, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9170
  • Dae Jaweon: page 649, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 242, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+5E76

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (并) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鵧 *bi
駢 *beːn
胼 *beːn
骿 *beːn
軿 *beːn, *beːŋ
賆 *beːn
跰 *preŋs, *beːn
恲 *pʰreŋ
鮩 *breŋʔ, *beːŋʔ, *biɡ
絣 *preːŋ
拼 *preːŋ
迸 *preːŋs
姘 *pʰreːŋ, *pʰeːŋ
皏 *pʰreːŋʔ
併 *breːŋʔ, *breːŋs, *peŋʔ, *peŋs, *beːŋʔ
并 *peŋ, *peŋs
栟 *peŋ
屏 *peŋ, *peŋʔ, *beːŋ
箳 *peŋ, *beːŋ
餅 *peŋʔ
鉼 *peŋʔ
摒 *peŋs
庰 *beŋs
偋 *beŋs
艵 *pʰeːŋ
頩 *pʰeːŋ, *pʰeːŋʔ
竮 *pʰeːŋ, *beːŋ
瓶 *beːŋ
缾 *beːŋ
蛢 *beːŋ
荓 *beːŋ
郱 *beːŋ
洴 *beːŋ
蓱 *beːŋ

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 并 – see 並 (“to be side by side; to be in a row; simultaneously; at the same time; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified form of 並).
Notes:

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 并 – see 併 (“to combine; to amalgamate”).
(This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 併).
Notes:

Usage notes

In ancient texts, 并 may be the same as 併 (OC *breːŋʔ, *breːŋs, *peŋʔ, *peŋs, *beːŋʔ), but not 並 (OC *beːŋʔ). 並 and 併 were differently pronounced in Old Chinese.

Etymology 3

simp. and trad.
 并
alternative forms 幷／并

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 并
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 清 (121)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 府盈切
Baxter pjieng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/piᴇŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/piɛŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/piæŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/piajŋ/
Li
Rong 		/piɛŋ/
Wang
Li 		/pĭɛŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/pi̯ɛŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		bīng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		bing1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 并
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		bīng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ pjieng ›
Old
Chinese 		/*peŋ/
English combine two things

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 并
Reading # 1/2
No. 930
Phonetic
component 		并
Rime
group 		耕
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		并
Old
Chinese 		/*peŋ/

Definitions

并

  1. (～州) (geography) Bing Province (province in ancient China)
  2. Synonym of 太原 (Tàiyuán, “Taiyuan City”)

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai

并

Kyūjitai

幷

Kanji

并

(Hyōgai kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 幷)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

并 • (byeong) (hangeul 병, revised byeong, McCune–Reischauer pyŏng)

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