U+517C "兼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+517C "兼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that fundamentally means "both," "and," "concurrently," or "to combine," often conveying the idea of holding two things together or covering multiple aspects at once. Its etymology traces to an ancient pictograph depicting a hand grasping two stalks of grain, visually representing the notion of simultaneous possession. In modern usage, it appears in terms like 兼職 (part-time job, literally "concurrent position") and 兼容 (compatible, literally "both accommodate"), and it is also notably the second character in the name of the philosopher Mozi (墨子, Mozi, where 子 is an honorific). The character is classified as part of the Kangxi radical 八 ("eight") or sometimes under 冂 ("down box") in radical-based dictionaries, and it is widely used across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems.