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HSK
the top / above / overhead / upwards / the top margin / above-mentioned / those higher up
HSK 1
under / the underside / below
HSK 1
right side / right, to the right
HSK 1
left / the left side / to the left of
HSK 1
one side / either side / on the one hand / on the other hand / doing while
HSK 1
outside / outer surface / abroad / place other than one's home
HSK 1
front / the front side / in front of
HSK 1
south / south side / southern part / to the south of
HSK 1
either side; both sides
HSK 4
inside
HSK 1
north / north side / northern part / to the north of
HSK 1
side; adjacent place
HSK 1
east / east side / eastern part / to the east of
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *边* | 边* | *边
side / edge / margin / border / boundary / CL: 個|个 / simultaneously
HSK 2
at one's side / on hand
HSK 2
this side / here
HSK 1
coast / seaside / seashore / beach
HSK 2
curb; roadside; wayside
HSK 2
over there / yonder
HSK 1
west / west side / western part / to the west of
HSK 1
the back; the rear; the last bit / behind; near the end; at the back / later; afterwards
HSK 1
edge; fringe; verge; brink; periphery / marginal; borderline
HSK 6
boundary layer
unilateral
HSK 7-9
Mabian Yizu Autonomous County in Leshan 樂山|乐山, Sichuan
frontier; border
HSK 5
half the sky / women of the new society / womenfolk
HSK 7-9
to have the advantage overwhelmingly on one side / to support unconditionally
hexagon
periphery; rim; perimeter; surroundings / (computing) (attributive) peripheral / merch (abbr. for 周邊商品|周边商品)
HSK 7-9
a person who regularly walks by the river cannot avoid getting their shoes wet (proverb) / (fig.) it comes with the territory (e.g. a person with the power to grant favors will inevitably succumb to temptation and take a bribe)
Woman can hold up half the sky / fig. nowadays, women have an equal part to play in society
bedside
edge of the water / waterside / shore (of sea, lake or river)
to keep to the side / to pull over / move aside!
not to the point / wide of the mark / neither here nor there / irrelevant
unilateralism
bilateral trade
to back sb up / to support sb in an argument / (lit. to beat nearby drum)
HSK 7-9
border clash
on hand / at hand
river bank
without boundary / not bordered
HSK 6
parallelogram
extremely vast / boundless / limitless / digressing / discursive / going off on tangents / straying far off topic
bilateral
HSK 7-9
near / beside
boundary / border
HSK 7-9
border area / borderland / frontier / frontier region
HSK 7-9
(Cantonese) to eat hot pot / hot pot
(table tennis) edge ball / (fig.) actions that are technically legal but perhaps not respectable
(idiom) boundless; limitless
(slang) (loanword) lesbian
to make light contact with the edge of sth / (fig.) to be nearly (a certain age); to be close to (danger) / (fig.) to be marginal (in terms of relevance or legality)
Yanbian county in Panzhihua 攀枝花, south Sichuan
horizon / ends of the earth / remotest places
Dingbian County in Yulin 榆林, Shaanxi
to marginalize / marginalization
side door / wicket door
half of sth / one side of sth
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *边* | 边* | *边
suffix of a noun of locality
to keep close to the edge / near the mark / close to (the true figure) / relevant (used with negative to mean totally irrelevant)
The sea of bitterness has no bounds, turn your head to see the shore (idiom). Only Buddhist enlightenment can allow one to shed off the abyss of worldly suffering. / Repent and ye shall be saved!
(fig.) (slang) to stick one's nose in other people's affairs (i.e. the scope of other people's business that one concerns oneself with is as wide as an ocean vista)
heptagon
lit. to treat (what sb says) as wind past your ear / fig. to completely disregard
to echo what sb said / to back sb up from the sidelines (in an argument)
edge / fringe
border area
edge / border / to edge (with lace, embroidery etc)
lit. a rabbit never eats the grass beside its own burrow (saying) / fig. even a scoundrel does not do harm in his immediate neighborhood
frontier stockade
multilateral
HSK 7-9
polygon
lace border (loanword)
border area / frontier
far from the center / remote / outlying
HSK 7-9
river bank
to be likely or possible / to begin to take shape / to be likely to succeed
lit. the sun rises in the west (idiom) / fig. hell freezes over / pigs can fly
triangle
pentagon
octagon
shore
to garrison the border / to guard the frontier / exile to a border garrison post
merch; spin-off product (related to a pop-culture franchise such as a movie, game or band etc)
Ebian Yizu Autonomous County in Leshan 樂山市|乐山市, Sichuan
sloping side / hypotenuse (of a right-angled triangle)
(geometry) quadrilateral
fireside
to keep saying (sth) over and over
border station / strategic defensive position on frontier
Dingbian County in Yulin 榆林, Shaanxi
to have a connection with / to be close (to reality) / to be relevant / to have one's hand in
Watanabe (Japanese surname)
fringes of cloth / (fig.) one's dress; one's appearance
side window
winger (in soccer or hockey)
(geometry) side length

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