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旁

páng

Old HSK 2 HSK 3.0 character level 2 Character

What 旁 means

1. one side
2. other
3. different
4. lateral component of a Chinese character (such as {刂|dāo}, {亻|rén} etc)

Example sentences

• 坐我旁边。
  Sit beside me.
• 我坐在桌旁。
  I am sitting at the table.
• 从窗旁走开。
  Go away from the window.
• 她坐在窗旁。
  She sat at the window.
• 她坐在我旁边。
  She sat next to me.
• 我坐在他旁边。
  I sat by his side.

Words starting with 旁

• 旁边páng biānside; adjacent place
• 旁人páng rénother people; bystanders; onlookers
• 旁听páng tīngto sit in on (proceedings); to be present at a meeting as an observer; to audit (a class)
• 旁观者páng guān zhěobserver; spectator
• 旁白páng báiaside (theater); voice-over; background narration
• 旁若无人páng ruò wú rénto act as though there were nobody else present; unselfconscious…
• 旁观páng guānspectator; non-participant
• 旁敲侧击páng qiāo cè jīto make insinuations; to take an indirect approach (in making inquiries) (idiom)
• 旁门páng ménside door
• 旁系páng xìcollateral relative (descended from a common ancestor but through different lines)
• 旁证páng zhèngcircumstantial evidence
• 旁路páng lùto bypass
• 旁听生páng tīng shēngauditor (student)
• 旁观者清páng guān zhě qīngan outsider can see things more clearly or objectively than those involved (idiom)
• 旁门左道páng mén zuǒ dàodissenting religious sect (idiom); heretical school of opinion; dissident group
• 旁氏Páng shìPond's (brand of skin care products)
• 旁遮普Páng zhē pǔPunjab state of India; Punjab province of Pakistan
• 旁遮普省Páng zhē pǔ shěngPunjab province of Pakistan
• 旁遮普邦Páng zhē pǔ bāngPunjab state in northwest India bordering Pakistan
• 旁骛páng wùto be inattentive; to be distracted by sth
• 旁皇páng huángvariant of 彷徨
• 旁边儿páng biān rerhua variant of 旁边
• 旁腱肌páng jiàn jīsee 腘旁腱肌; hamstring (anatomy)

Words containing 旁

• 一旁yī pángaside; to the side of
• 两旁liǎng pángboth sides; either side
• 路旁lù pángroadside
• 偏旁piān pángcomponent of a Chinese character (as the radical or the phonetic part)
• 袖手旁观xiù shǒu páng guānto watch with folded arms (idiom); to look on without lifting a finger
• 责无旁贷zé wú páng dàito be duty bound; to be one's unshirkable responsibility
• 冷眼旁观lěng yǎn páng guān(idiom) to observe with an indifferent attitude; to be a bystander…
• 在旁zài pángalongside; nearby
• 形旁xíng pángsemantic component of a phono-semantic character (e.g. component 刂
• 波旁Bō pángBourbon
• 声旁shēng pángphonetic component of Chinese character
• 街旁Jiē pángJiepang…
• 侧刀旁cè dāo pángname of the lateral "knife" radical 刂
• 厂字旁chǎng zì pángname of "cliff" 厂 radical in simplified Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 27)
• 反文旁fǎn wén páng(colloquial) grapheme 攵 (variant form of Kangxi radical 66, 攴)
• 立刀旁lì dāo pángname of the lateral "knife" radical 刂
• 耳旁风ěr páng fēnglit. wind past your ear; fig. sth you don't pay much attention to…
• 声旁字shēng páng zìcharacter serving as sound value of another character; phonetic
• 言字旁yán zì pángname of "speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149); see also 讠
• 当耳旁风dàng ěr páng fēnglit. to treat (what sb says) as wind past your ear; fig. to completely disregard
• 触类旁通chù lèi páng tōngto comprehend (new things) by analogy
• 甲状旁腺jiǎ zhuàng páng xiàn(anatomy) parathyroid gland
• 舵旁duò pánghelm (of a ship)
• 鼻旁窦bí páng dòuparanasal sinus

Characters that look like 旁

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 音yīnsound; noise; note (of musical scale)
• 奢shēextravagant
• 晕yūnconfused; dizzy; giddy
• 聋lóngdeaf
• 娄Lóusurname Lou; one of the 28 lunar mansions in Chinese astronomy
• 耆qíman of sixty or seventy

Sounds the same

Read páng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 庞(bound form) huge; (bound form) numerous and disordered; (bound form) face
• 磅used in 磅礴; Taiwan pr. pāng
• 膀used in 膀胱
• 彷used in 彷徨
• 螃used in 螃蟹
• 徬irresolute
• 厖huge
• 庬huge
• 鳑used in 鳑鲏
• 逄surname Pang
• 尨surname Pang
• 厐variant of 庞; enormous

Where 旁 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 2 Characters · Set 22 (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 2 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read páng correctly.
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