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HSK
side; adjacent place
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *旁* | 旁* | *旁
one side / other / different / lateral component of a Chinese character (such as , etc)
HSK 5
aside / to the side of
HSK 7-9
to watch with folded arms (idiom); to look on without lifting a finger
HSK 7-9
spectator / non-participant
HSK 7-9
aside (theater) / voice-over / background narration
to be duty bound / to be one's unshirkable responsibility
both sides; either side
to sit in on (proceedings) / to be present at a meeting as an observer / to audit (a class)
roadside
component of a Chinese character (as the radical or the phonetic part)
(idiom) to observe with an indifferent attitude; to be a bystander (usually referring to someone who could get involved but chooses not to)
to bypass
dissenting religious sect (idiom); heretical school of opinion / dissident group
Punjab state of India / Punjab province of Pakistan
to make insinuations / to take an indirect approach (in making inquiries) (idiom)
to act as though there were nobody else present / unselfconscious / fig. without regard for others
collateral relative (descended from a common ancestor but through different lines)
other people / bystanders / onlookers / outsiders
completely focused / free of distractions
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *讠* | 讠* | *讠
"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁
an outsider can see things more clearly or objectively than those involved (idiom)
(idiom) an outsider can see things more clearly or objectively than those involved
to comprehend (new things) by analogy
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *刂* | 刂* | *刂
Kangxi radical 18 () as a vertical side element, referred to as 立刀旁 or 側刀旁|侧刀旁
(anatomy) parathyroid gland
phonetic component of Chinese character
semantic component of a phono-semantic character (e.g. component in )
circumstantial evidence
to be inattentive / to be distracted by sth
nearby regions
Pond's (brand of skin care products)
observer / spectator
auditor (student)
Punjab state in northwest India bordering Pakistan
lit. to treat (what sb says) as wind past your ear / fig. to completely disregard
name of "speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 訁|讠
name of "cliff" radical in simplified Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 27)
erhua variant of 旁邊|旁边
Bourbon
Jiepang (Chinese location-based social networking service for mobile devices, in operation 2010-2016)
paranasal sinus
name of the lateral "knife" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 18), occurring in , , 別|别 etc
coronary bypass operation
coronary bypass operation
(colloquial) grapheme (variant form of Kangxi radical 66, )
alongside / nearby
to watch from the sidelines and do nothing (idiom)
variant of 彷徨
see 膕旁腱肌|腘旁腱肌 / hamstring (anatomy)
Punjab province of Pakistan
side door
lit. bystanders killed the king's horse (idiom) (based on an ancient story in which people along the road cheered a horseman on as he galloped past, until the horse died of exhaustion) / fig. beware of becoming complacent when everyone is cheering you on
name of the lateral "knife" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 18), occurring in , , 別|别 etc
lit. wind past your ear / fig. sth you don't pay much attention to / in one ear and out the other
character serving as sound value of another character / phonetic
hamstring (anatomy) / see also 膕繩肌|腘绳肌
helm (of a ship)
Ponzi (name) / Pond's (brand of skin care products), also written 旁氏


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