兼

Translingual

Han character

兼 (radical 12 八+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿難金 (TXC), four-corner 8023₇)

Derived characters

• 廉 嫌 鎌

Related characters

• 禾

References

• KangXi: page 128, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1483
• Dae Jaweon: page 288, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 249, character 8
• Unihan data for U+517C
• EUC:
  • Hex: B7F3
• JIS:
  • Hex: 3773
• Shift-JIS:
  • Hex: 8C93

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Cantonese

Hanzi

兼 (Yale gim1)

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Japanese

Kanji

兼 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: けん (ken)
• Kun: かねる (兼ねる, kaneru)

Compounds

兼営 兼官 兼業 兼勤 兼言 兼行 兼修 兼職 兼摂

兼帯 兼題 兼任 兼備 兼併 兼補 兼務 兼有 兼用

Related terms

• 兼す

Conjunction

-兼- (-けん-, -ken-)

1. -cum-, concurrently, in addition
   • 書斎兼応接間
     しょさいけんおうせつま
     shosai ken ōsetsuma
     study-cum-drawing room
     
     
   • 首相兼外相
     しゅしょうけんがいしょう
     shushō ken gaishō
     someone who holds the offices of both Prime Minister and Foriegn Minister

Proper noun

兼 (hiragana けん, romaji Ken)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

兼 (hangeul 겸, revised kyeom, McCune-Reischauer kyŏm, Yale kyeom)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

兼 (pinyin jiān (jian1), Wade-Giles chien)

• Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢ

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Middle Chinese

Han character

兼 (*gem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

兼 (kiêm, kem, kèm, cồm)