IDENTITY
旁pángbeside
HSK 3Top 900
CORE MEANING
beside
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.beside; sideHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 方square radical (fāng)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱⿱⿱亠丷冖方
- gives the sound páng (historical)
- part of the structure
- part of the structure
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
旁边pángbiānbeside
旁观pángguānto look on
Graded examples
商店就在旁边。Shāngdiàn jiù zài pángbiān.HSK3
The shop is right beside it.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 傍
LEARNING
Memory aid
A wide (方) roofed area to the side — beside, adjacent.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #900
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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