Where 旁 comes from
stand
- Meaning part
- 立 (“to stand”)
- Sound part
- 方 (“square”)
How to write 旁 (páng, “one side”)
旁 (páng), an HSK 2 character, means “one side”, “other” and “different”. It is HSK 2 in the 2025 syllabus, up from level 1 in the 2021 standard. It pairs a meaning part, 立 (“to stand”), with a sound part, 方 (“square”). Among the HSK words it appears in 旁边 (“side”), 一旁 (“aside”) and 旁人 (“other people”). Japanese reads it bou, “RHS of character”.
- Pinyin
- páng
- Strokes
- 10
- HSK
- 2
- Radical
- 方 (“square”)
Stroke by stroke
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
As a top-bottom character it splits into 立 (“to stand”), strokes 1–4 and 6; 方 (“square”, the radical), strokes 7–10, written with the strokes of the parts interleaved.
- Vertical ㇑topdown and right
- Horizontal ㇐top leftrightwards
- Dot ㇔topa dot
- Left-falling stroke ㇒topdown and right → down and left
- Dot ㇔leftdownwards
- Horizontal hook ㇖leftrightwards
- Vertical ㇑centerdown and right
- Horizontal ㇐leftrightwards
- Horizontal-turn-hook ㇆centerrightwards → downwards → up and left
- Left-falling stroke ㇒centerdown and left
Japanese and Chinese
Japanese and Chinese draw all 10 strokes in the same order and direction, by our stroke-by-stroke comparison.
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Pinyin and meaning
| Pinyin | Meanings | Traditional | In words |
|---|---|---|---|
| páng second tone | one side; other; different; lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂 (dāo), 亻 (rén) etc) | — | 旁边 一旁 旁人 袖手旁观 |
- HSK 2025 syllabus
- level 2
- 2021 standard
- level 1
- HSK 2.0
- in a level 2 word
- Words with it
- 42 in CC-CEDICT
Words with 旁
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 旁边 旁邊 | pángbiān | side; adjacent place HSK 2 |
| 一旁 | yìpáng | aside; to the side of HSK 7-9 |
| 旁人 | pángrén | other people; bystanders HSK 7-9 |
| 袖手旁观 袖手旁觀 | xiùshǒu-pángguān | to watch with folded arms (idiom); to look on without lifting a finger HSK 7-9 |
| 偏旁 | piānpáng | component of a Chinese character HSK 7-9 |
| 两旁 兩旁 | liǎngpáng | both sides; either side |
| 四旁 | sìpáng | nearby regions |
| 在旁 | zàipáng | alongside; nearby |
| 旁听 旁聽 | pángtīng | to sit in on (proceedings); to be present at a meeting as an observer |
| 旁白 | pángbái | aside (theater); voice-over |
HSK words first (CC-CEDICT).
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