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CHINESE CHARACTER
- Numbered pinyin
- pin1
- English meanings
- to piece together, to join together, to stake all, adventurous, at the risk of one's life, to spell
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BUILDING BLOCKS
Structure & components
Left–right structure
Left–right arrangement: left 扌; right 并.
Meaning & sound clues
扌 is identified as the meaning component, associated with “hand”.
并 is identified as the sound component (bìng). Its pronunciation may differ from the modern pronunciation of 拼.
This breakdown describes the written shape. A component's meaning does not always explain the meaning of the whole character.
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Characters with the same pinyin, regardless of tone.
kind
engage
poor; lacking
frequent; frequency
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Related words
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- 拼命
- 拼搏