Chinese symbol for “alongside”
并肩
bìng jiān
Traditional: 並肩
alongside; shoulder to shoulder; side by side; abreast
The closest CC-CEDICT match for alongside is 并肩 (bìng jiān), defined as: alongside; shoulder to shoulder; side by side; abreast.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “alongside”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 并肩.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 并且 (並且) | bìng qiě | and; besides; moreover; furthermore; in addition |
| 并非 (並非) | bìng fēi | really isn't |
| 合并 (合並) | hé bìng | variant of 合并 (hé bìng) |
| 并未 (並未) | bìng wèi | (used to stress that sth did not turn out as one might have expected) did not actually ...; has not actually ... |
| 并购 (併購) | bìng gòu | merger and acquisition (M and A); acquisition |
| 肩膀 | jiān bǎng | shoulder |
| 肩负 (肩負) | jiān fù | to shoulder (a burden); to bear |
| 擦肩而过 (擦肩而過) | cā jiān ér guò | to brush past; to pass by (sb); (fig.) to miss (an opportunity, a danger etc); to have a brush (with death) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “alongside”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.