IDENTITY
边biānside; edge
HSK 2Top 180
CORE MEANING
side; edge
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.sideHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 辶walk radical (chuò)
- strokes
- 5
- Structure
- semi-enclosed compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿺辶力
- walking; motion
- gives the sound biān (historical)
USAGE
Common words
旁边pángbiānbeside
左边zuǒbianleft side
一边yìbiānone side; while
Graded examples
他站在我旁边。Tā zhàn zài wǒ pángbiān.HSK2
He stands beside me.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
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LEARNING
Memory aid
Walking (辶) along the edge with effort (力) — the side, the border.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #180
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
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