Chinese Character Wiki
旁

páng

side

Phonosemantic component. 凡 represents the meaning and 方 represents the sound.

Components
凡 iconic component

凡  Iconic component

fán

  

all

Depicts a wide, flat object.

方 sound,meaning component

方  Sound Meaning component

fāng

  

square

Evolution

旁 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
旁 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
旁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
旁 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
旁 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

旁  

páng

side; by side, close by, near; one side; other; different; lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂[dāo], 亻[rén] etc)

Most common words with 旁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

旁边

lateral

旁

beside

一旁

aside

袖手旁观

to watch with folded arms (idiom); to look on without lifting a finger

旁观者

observer

Component uses

Meaning component in 3 characters (1 verified)

膀 榜 傍

Sound component in 14 characters (1 verified)

膀 鎊 镑 榜 傍 磅 謗 谤 螃 滂 耪 蒡 鰟 鳑

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]ˤaŋ

bang

páng

side; broad


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 38.9076% of movies

1108th most common character in movies

981st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+65C1

Shuowen

“旁，溥也。从二，闕，方聲。，古文；，亦古文；雱，籀文。”


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