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合并

hé bìng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 合併

合并 (hé bìng) means "to merge; to annex". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 合并 means

1. to merge
2. to annex

Other readings

合并 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• hé bìngvariant of {合并|hé bìng}

The characters in 合并

• 合héto close; to join; to fit
• 并bìngand; furthermore; also

Example sentences

• 三菱银行和东京银行合并了。
  Sānlíng yínháng hé Dōngjīng yínháng hébìng le.
  The Mitsubishi Bank merged with the Bank of Tokyo.
• 昨天突然传出了两间公司合并的消息。
  Zuótiān tūrán chuánchū le liǎng jiān gōngsī hébìng de xiāoxi.
  The news of the merger of the two companies broke yesterday.
• 分支和合并是版本控制的两种基本操作。
  Fēnzhī héhé bìng shì bǎnběn kòngzhì de liǎng zhǒng jīběn cāozuò.
  Branching and merging are two basic operations of revision control.
• 自从公司合并了以后，一切都变得十分混乱。
  Zìcóng gōngsī hébìng le yǐhòu, yīqiè dōu biànde shífēn hùnluàn.
  The office has been topsy-turvy since the merger upset everything.
• 我的书桌，一个可怕的地方：难以置信地多的，难以置信地有用的抽屉——合并在难以置信的一点伸腿的地方。
  Wǒ de shūzhuō, yī gè kěpà de dìfang: nányǐzhìxìn de duō de, nányǐzhìxìn de yǒuyòng de chōuti —— hébìng zài nányǐzhìxìn de yīdiǎn shēn tuǐ de dìfang.
  My writing desk, a place of dread: an incredible number of incredibly useful drawers - combined with incredibly little legspace.

Words starting with 合并

• 合并症hé bìng zhèngcomplication (medicine)

Words containing 合并

• 中西合并Zhōng Xī hé bìngChinese-Western fusion

Where 合并 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · háng–hé (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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