兼 (jiān)
to hold two or more posts at the same time/double/twice
How 兼 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 丷 — eight/divide
- Traditional
- 兼
- Simplified
- 兼 (unchanged)
Components
- 丷 eight/divide
- 一 one
- 八 eight/divide
- ⺕ pig snout
Common words using 兼
- 兼職 jiānzhí
- to hold concurrent posts; concurrent job; moonlighting
- 兼備 jiānbèi
- have both
- 兼具 jiānjù
- to combine; to have both
- 兼容 jiānróng
- compatible
- 兼程 jiānchéng
- to travel at double speed; to make all haste
- 兼顧 jiāngù
- to attend simultaneously to two or more things; to balance (career and family, family and education etc)
- 兼任 jiānrèn
- to hold several jobs at once; concurrent post; working part-time
- 兼併 jiānbìng
- to annex; to take over; to acquire
- 兼優 jiānyōu
- an all-rounder; good at everything
- 兼容性 jiānróngxìng
- compatibility
- 兼施 jiānshī
- using several (methods)
- 兼營 jiānyíng
- a second job; supplementary way of making a living
兼 in a sentence
他白天在公司上班，晚上還兼了一份差。
Tā báitiān zài gōngsī shàngbān, wǎnshàng hái jiānle yí fèn chā.
“He works at a company during the day and holds another job at night.”
How common is 兼?
兼 is the 1,513th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 94.7% of all running text.
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