旁
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one side; other; different; lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂[dao1], 亻[ren2] etc)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 方 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 旁
- Common rank
- #1,374
- Unicode
- U+65C1
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Formation & memory
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Words with 旁
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 旁边 | side; adjacent place | |
| 当局者迷，旁观者清 | (idiom) an outsider can see things more clearly or objectively than those involved | |
| 杀君马者道旁儿 | lit. bystanders killed the king's horse (idiom) (based on an ancient story in which people… | |
| 冠状动脉旁通手术 | coronary bypass operation | |
| 当耳旁风 | lit. to treat (what sb says) as wind past your ear; fig. to completely disregard | |
| 反文旁 | (colloquial) grapheme 攵 (variant form of Kangxi radical 66, 攴) | |
| 旁观者清 | an outsider can see things more clearly or objectively than those involved (idiom) | |
| 言字旁 | name of "speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149); see also 訁… | |
| 旁若无人 | to act as though there were nobody else present; unselfconscious; fig. without regard for … | |
| 旁边儿 | erhua variant of 旁邊|旁边[pang2 bian1] | |
| 声旁字 | character serving as sound value of another character; phonetic | |
| 耳旁风 | lit. wind past your ear; fig. sth you don't pay much attention to; in one ear and out the … | |
| 冠状动脉旁路移植手术 | coronary bypass operation | |
| 旁门左道 | dissenting religious sect (idiom); heretical school of opinion; dissident group | |
| 冷眼旁观 | (idiom) to observe with an indifferent attitude; to be a bystander (usually referring to s… | |
| 旁听生 | auditor (student) | |
| 旁观者 | observer; spectator | |
| 立刀旁 | name of the lateral "knife" radical 刂[dao1] in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 18), occ… | |
| 旁人 | other people; bystanders; onlookers; outsiders | |
| 一旁 | aside; to the side of |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 方 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 方 sound part | square, rectangle; side; region; flag | |
| 放 | to release, to liberate, to free | |
| 房 | building, house, room | |
| 防 | to protect, to defend, to guard against | |
| 访 | to visit; to inquire, to ask | |
| 仿 | to imitate, to copy; fake; as if | |
| 坊 | neighborhood, district, community; street, lane; mill | |
| 芳 | fragrant; beautiful, virtuous | |
| 纺 | to spin, to weave, to reel | |
| 肪 | animal fat | |
| 妨 | damage, harm; to impede, to obstruct; to undermine | |
| 邡 | a district in Sichuan province | |
| 彷 | similar, alike; to resemble | |
| 舫 | yacht, fancy boat | |
| 昉 | dawn, daybreak; to appear | |
| 鲂 | bream | |
| 钫 | francium |