Dictionary🇨🇳 Chinese → 🇺🇸 English

bìng, bīng

Description

“并”常常用来连接两个动词,表示“同时”做两件事。

在正式的句子里,我们也用“并”来加强语气,意思有点像“而且”。

Meanings

bìng

and; moreover (connects verbs or clauses)

他看了信,并回了电话。

并不bìng bù

not at all (emphatic negation)

这件事并不难。

This matter is not difficult.

bìng

side by side; together

我们并肩走在路上。

Related words

Notes

  • Nuance

    并 before a negative (并不/并没) stresses that reality differs from expectation.

  • Etymology

    pictograph of two people standing side by side, hence 'together, and'.

Links