旁 — Chinese character
旁
páng
side; beside, close, nearby
- Pinyin
- páng
- Radical
- 70 ⽅ (Square)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 立 方
- Formation
- pictophonetic — stand; meaning component 立; sound component 方
- Japanese
- 旁 as a kanji
Common words with 旁
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 旁边 (旁邊) | páng biān | side; adjacent place |
| 一旁 | yī páng | aside; to the side of |
| 旁人 | páng rén | other people; bystanders |
| 旁听 (旁聽) | páng tīng | to sit in on (proceedings); to be present at a meeting as an observer |
| 路旁 | lù páng | roadside |
| 旁观者 (旁觀者) | páng guān zhě | observer; spectator |
| 旁观 (旁觀) | páng guān | spectator; non-participant |
| 两旁 (兩旁) | liǎng páng | both sides; either side |
| 袖手旁观 (袖手旁觀) | xiù shǒu páng guān | to watch with folded arms (idiom); to look on without lifting a finger |
| 旁白 | páng bái | aside (theater); voice-over |
| 责无旁贷 (責無旁貸) | zé wú páng dài | to be duty bound; to be one's unshirkable responsibility |
| 冷眼旁观 (冷眼旁觀) | lěng yǎn páng guān | (idiom) to observe with an indifferent attitude; to be a bystander (usually referring to someone who could get involved but chooses not to) |
English words written with 旁
旁 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Art of War 1 · Zhuangzi 9
- Art of War 9.17
- Zhuangzi Transcendental Bliss
- Zhuangzi The Identity of Contraries
- Zhuangzi Man Among Men
- Zhuangzi Joined Toes
- Zhuangzi On Letting Alone
- Zhuangzi Mountain Trees
- Zhuangzi On Swords
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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