旁
páng
Pinyin

Definition

旁
 - 
páng
  1. beside
  2. one side
  3. other
  4. side
  5. self
  6. the right-hand side of split Chinese character, often the phonetic

Character Decomposition

Compounds (18)

膀
bǎng
  1. 1 upper arm
  2. 2 wing
膀
bàng
  1. 1 to flirt
膀
pāng
  1. 1 puffed (swollen)
膀
páng
  1. 1 bladder
膀
bǎng
  1. 1 old variant of 膀[bǎng]

Related Words (20)

旁
páng
  1. 1 beside
  2. 2 one side
  3. 3 other
  4. 4 side
  5. 5 self
  6. 6 the right-hand side of split Chinese character, often the phonetic
旁边
páng biān
  1. 1 lateral
  2. 2 side
  3. 3 to the side
  4. 4 beside
一旁
yī páng
  1. 1 aside
  2. 2 to the side of
旁人
páng rén
  1. 1 other people
  2. 2 bystanders
  3. 3 onlookers
  4. 4 outsiders
旁白
páng bái
  1. 1 aside (theater)
  2. 2 voice-over
  3. 3 background narration

Idioms (6)

拱手旁观
gǒng shǒu páng guān
  1. 1 to watch from the sidelines and do nothing (idiom)
旁敲侧击
páng qiāo cè jī
  1. 1 to make insinuations
  2. 2 to take an indirect approach (in making inquiries) (idiom)
旁观者清
páng guān zhě qīng
  1. 1 The person on the spot is baffled, the onlooker sees clear (idiom). The spectator sees more of the game.
旁门左道
páng mén zuǒ dào
  1. 1 dissenting religious sect (idiom); heretical school of opinion
  2. 2 dissident group
当局者迷，旁观者清
dāng jú zhě mí , páng guān zhě qīng
  1. 1 The person on the spot is baffled, the onlooker sees clear (idiom). The onlooker sees more of the game.

Sample Sentences

你总是要我在你身旁，说幸福该是什么模样。
nǐ zǒngshì yào wǒ zài nǐ shēn páng ，shuō xìngfú gāi shì shénme múyàng 。
You’ve always wanted me to be next to you, saying how love is supposed to be.
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秦宇走到旁边的窗户，往里看，想看个究竟。这一看，让他愣了半天都无法缓过来。
QínYǔ zǒu dào pángbiān de chuānghu ，wǎng lǐ kàn ，xiǎng kàn ge jiūjìng 。zhè yī kàn ，ràng tā lèng le bàntiān dōu wúfǎ huǎn guòlái 。
QinYu then walked to the window on the side and looked into it. He wanted to figure out what actually happened. He was taken aback by what he saw and he didn't recover from the shock until a long time had passed.
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到了汉代，皇宫里夏季便有了“清凉殿”，内有多重降温装置，以石头为床，用玉晶盘装冰块，还有人站在一旁对着扇扇子，清凉无比。
dào le Hàndài ，huánggōng lǐ xiàjì biàn yǒu le “qīngliáng diàn ”，nèi yǒu duōchóng jiàngwēn zhuāngzhì ，yǐ shítou wèi chuáng ，yòng yù jīng pán zhuāng bīngkuài ，háiyǒu rén zhàn zài yīpáng duì zhe shān shànzi ，qīngliáng wúbǐ 。
In the Han Dynasty, the palace had a "cool hall" in the summer, with multiple cooling devices inside, such as a stone bed, plates made from jade crystals to store ice cubes and people using fans. The coolness was incomparable.
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旁边那位接过资料，瞄了一眼递给第三位，
pángbiān nà wèi jiēguò zīliào ，miáo le yīyǎn dì gěi dìsānwèi ，
The person beside her took the document, glanced at it, and gave it to the last person.
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我把资料递给其中一个，她摆了一下头，意思是找旁边那位，
wǒ bǎ zīliào dì gěi qízhōng yī ge ，tā bǎi le yī xià tóu ，yìsi shì zhǎo pángbiān nà wèi ，
I gave my documents to one of them. She tilted her head to one side, gesturing me to ask the person beside her.
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请到旁边来，我现在打开包包确认，你看清楚。好，这里有一把小剪刀，你应该知道尖锐物品是不能带上飞机的吧，这把剪刀看你是要托运还是要丢弃。
qǐng dào pángbiān lái ，wǒ xiànzài dǎkāi bāobāo quèrèn ，nǐ kàn qīngchu 。hǎo ，zhèlǐ yǒu yī bǎ xiǎo jiǎndāo ，nǐ yīnggāi zhīdào jiānruì wùpǐn shì bùnéng dàishàng fēijī de ba ，zhè bǎ jiǎndāo kàn nǐ shì yào tuōyùn háishi yào diūqì 。
Please come to the side. I’m going to open your bag to confirm, please watch carefully. OK, there are scissors here, you must know that you can’t take sharp objects on to aircrafts. You can either put it in your check luggage or throw away this pair of scissors.
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我大呼小叫？我刚刚开车出门，先是路上打方向灯要右转，后方来车居然加速超前右转，差点就擦到我的车了！接着下车到便利店买点喝的，我才把冰箱门打开，旁边那小子竟然一伸手拿了我要的那罐茶就走！
wǒ dàhūxiǎojiào ？wǒ gānggāng kāichē chūmén ，xiān shì lùshang dǎ fāngxiàngdēng yào yòu zhuǎn ，hòufāng lái chē jūrán jiāsù chāoqián yòu zhuǎn ，chàdiǎn jiù cā dào wǒ de chē le ！jiē zhe xiàchē dào biànlìdiàn mǎi diǎnr hē de ，wǒ cái bǎ bīngxiāng mén dǎkāi ，pángbiān nà xiǎozi jìngrán yī shēnshǒu ná le wǒ yào de nà guàn chá jiù zǒu ！
I'm causing a scene? I was just driving from home, and I was signaling right, and a car came suddenly accelerated from behind and overtook me to turn right. He almost hit me! Then when I got out of the car to buy something to drink at a convenience store, I'd just opened the door to the fridge when a little hoodlum stretched out his arm from beside me to take the bottle of tea I wanted.
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我住在台北101旁边。
wǒ zhù zài Táibéi 101 pángbiān 。
I live next to Taipei 101 (the skyscraper).
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从旁边走。
cóng pángbiān zǒu 。
Walk from the side.
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我们公司旁边的那个公园。
wǒmen gōngsī pángbiān de nàge gōngyuán 。
The park next to our company.
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