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旁边

páng biān

Old HSK 2 HSK 3.0 level 2 2-character word Traditional 旁邊

旁边 (páng biān) means "side; adjacent place". It is an HSK 3.0 level 2 word, and was HSK 2 in the old six-level list.

What 旁边 means

1. side; adjacent place

The characters in 旁边

• 旁pángone side; other; different
• 边biānside; edge; margin

Example sentences

• 坐我旁边。
  Sit beside me.
• 她坐在我旁边。
  She sat next to me.
• 我坐在他旁边。
  I sat by his side.
• 狗坐在碗旁边。
  The dog is sitting by the bowl.
• 他在她的旁边。
  He is at her side.
• 他坐在溪流旁边。
  Tā zuò zài xīliú pángbiān.
  He sat next to the stream.

Words starting with 旁边

• 旁边儿páng biān rerhua variant of 旁边

Where 旁边 is taught

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

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