U+4F75 "併" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+4F75 "併" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to combine," "to merge," or "to join together," often implying the act of uniting two or more separate entities into a single whole. This character is historically used in various East Asian contexts, including classical Chinese texts, Japanese (where it appears as a simplified variant of the character "並"), and Korean hanja. Its structure combines the radical for "person" or "human" on the left with a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its meaning of bringing people or things into association or conjunction. In modern usage, "併" frequently appears in compound words related to business mergers, territorial annexations, or the consolidation of resources, conveying a sense of incorporation rather than mere addition.