肩并肩
jiān​bìng​jiān

side by side

肩 jiān shoulder

Originally a pictograph of a shoulder. Later the ⺼ (flesh) component was added.

Components

◎
◎ Iconic component
characterless component

Depicts a shoulder. Unrelated to 户.

⺼
⺼ Meaning component
ròu meat, flesh

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

掮

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

掮

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartken[k]ˤe[n] shoulder (n.)

說文解字

《說文》：“，髆也。从肉，象形。肩，俗肩从戶。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

并 bìng combine Simplified

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

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Qin 221-206 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (5 of 9 verified)

瓶拼屏饼迸姘胼餅併

Meaning (1 of 4 verified)

骈姘併駢

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartpjiengpeŋ combine two things
pjiengHpeŋ-s combine two things

說文解字

《說文》：“幷，相從也。从从，幵聲。一曰从持二為幷。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

並 side by side Traditional

Originally written as 竝, which depicts two people standing (立) side by side.

Components

立
立 Iconic component
lì stand
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 立 than it was in ancient scripts.
立
立 Iconic component
lì stand
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 立 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Three Kingdoms (Wu) 222-280 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (2 of 4 verified)

普碰湴椪

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartbengX[b]ˤeŋʔ side by side, together

說文解字

《說文》：“竝，併也。从二立。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)