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


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