并 bìng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 干 — arid, dry
- Made of
- 丷 horns 开 to open
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
并肩
bìngjiān
shoulder to shoulder; side by side
Characters in this word
肩 jiān
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- ⺼ — meat, flesh
- Made of
- 户 door ⺼ meat, flesh
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 两国科研人员并肩工作，才在极端环境下完成了这项观测任务。 Liǎng guó kēyán rényuán bìngjiān gōngzuò, cái zài jíduān huánjìng xià wánchéng le zhè xiàng guāncè rènwù. Researchers from the two countries worked shoulder to shoulder to complete this observation task in extreme conditions.
- 两个好朋友并肩走在回家的路上。 Liǎng ge hǎo péngyou bìngjiān zǒu zài huí jiā de lù shang. Two good friends walked side by side on the way home.
- 医生和护士并肩工作，一直忙到深夜。 Yīshēng hé hùshi bìngjiān gōngzuò, yìzhí máng dào shēnyè. The doctors and nurses worked side by side, busy until late at night.
Related words
- 并 bìng at all (with negatives)
- 并且 bìngqiě and; moreover
- 并 bìng to join together
- 合并 hébìng to merge; to combine
- 并发症 bìngfāzhèng complication; concurrent disease
- 并非 bìngfēi is not; by no means
- 并购 bìnggòu merger and acquisition; to acquire and merge
- 并列 bìngliè to stand side by side; to be listed side by side
- 并行 bìngxíng to run in parallel; parallel
- 相提并论 xiāngtíbìnglùn to mention in the same breath; to compare as equals
- 一并 yíbìng together; all at once
- 肩 jiān shoulder