HSK 3.0 Level 4 · Connectives

并 bìng “and” in Chinese

Traditional 並

What 并 means

  1. and
  2. also
  3. (before a negative) not at all
  4. furthermore
  5. together with
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • (not) at all
  • simultaneously

How to say 并

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale并bìng4th tone, falling

并 in a sentence

  1. 我并没有义务帮助你。

    Wǒ bìng méiyǒu yìwù bāngzhù nǐ.

    I’m under no obligation to help you.

    Sentence #9989940 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 方法并不重要，结果才重要。

    Fāngfǎ bìng bú zhòngyào, jiéguǒ cái zhòngyào.

    The method isn’t what matters – the result is.

    Sentence #782900 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 虽然他是我的邻居，但是我对他并不太了解。

    Suīrán tā shì wǒ de línjū, dànshì wǒ duì tā bìng bú tài liǎojiě.

    He’s my neighbour, but I don’t really know him well.

    Sentence #602928 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 并 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 并 (bìng) with each of its parts in a different colour
并bìngand
  • 丷eight form of 八 · bā
  • 开to open · kāi

How to write 并

并 6 strokes

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并 (bìng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 并 (bìng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 并

Words with 并

并且bìngqiě · and并列bìngliè · to stand side by side合并hébìng · to merge并非bìngfēi · to not be

More words: Connectives & Grammar Words

以下yǐxià · below以上yǐshàng · above的话dehuà · if (ends a conditional clause)将jiāng · will之间zhījiān · between者zhě · (suffix) person who …自zì · from性xìng · (suffix) -ness

FAQs

并 (bìng) means “and” or “also”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word.
Say it bìng: bìng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 并 is written 並. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type bing with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 并 from the suggestions. Typing bing into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
并 is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 6 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.