並
bìng HSK3

side by side

并 (並) bìng
at all adverb
used before a negative for emphasis (not at all)

他并无恶意，你不要太介意。

tā bìng wú è​yì, nǐ bù yào tài jiè​yì.

He meant no harm; don't take it too much to heart.

and conjunction
and; furthermore; also

我支持并赞成这个提议。

wǒ zhī​chí bìng zàn​chéng zhè gè tí​yì.

I support and approve of this proposal.

simultaneously adverb
simultaneously; together with; at the same time

两项任务同时并进，效率提高了不少。

liǎng xiàng rèn​wu tóng​shí bìng​jìn, xiào​lǜ tí​gāo le bù​shǎo.

With two tasks proceeding simultaneously, efficiency has improved significantly.

combine conjunction
to combine; to join; to merge

他两步并作一步，飞快地跑上了楼梯。

tā liǎng bù bìng zuò yī bù, fēi​kuài de pǎo shàng le lóu​tī.

He took the stairs two at a time and ran up quickly.

Frequency
Character
Written text
141st most common 1455.3 per million
Movie subtitles
294th most common 561.1 per million appears in 86% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
578.1 per million appears in 81% of films
Written text
1012.4 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Simplified
并
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+4E26

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)