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HSK
one side / either side / on the one hand / on the other hand / doing while
HSK 1
east / east side / eastern part / to the east of
HSK 1
under / the underside / below
HSK 1
either side; both sides
HSK 4
left / the left side / to the left of
HSK 1
outside / outer surface / abroad / place other than one's home
HSK 1
the top / above / overhead / upwards / the top margin / above-mentioned / those higher up
HSK 1
north / north side / northern part / to the north of
HSK 1
over there / yonder
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *邊* | 邊* | *邊
side / edge / margin / border / boundary / CL: 個|个 / simultaneously
HSK 2
this side / here
HSK 1
right side / right, to the right
HSK 1
the back; the rear; the last bit / behind; near the end; at the back / later; afterwards
HSK 1
front / the front side / in front of
HSK 1
south / south side / southern part / to the south of
HSK 1
side; adjacent place
HSK 1
coast / seaside / seashore / beach
HSK 2
inside
HSK 1
at one's side / on hand
HSK 2
west / west side / western part / to the west of
HSK 1
merch; spin-off product (related to a pop-culture franchise such as a movie, game or band etc)
curb; roadside; wayside
HSK 2
far from the center / remote / outlying
HSK 7-9
edge; fringe; verge; brink; periphery / marginal; borderline
HSK 6
border station / frontier post
hexagon
octagon
without boundary / not bordered
HSK 6
scalene triangle
frontier; border
HSK 5
to have the advantage overwhelmingly on one side / to support unconditionally
not care about one's appearance (idiom) / slovenly in dress and manner
heptagon
bilateral
HSK 7-9
near / beside
polygon
bedside
border area / borderland / frontier / frontier region
HSK 7-9
not to the point / wide of the mark / neither here nor there / irrelevant
half the sky / women of the new society / womenfolk
HSK 7-9
on hand / at hand
multilateral
HSK 7-9
to back sb up / to support sb in an argument / (lit. to beat nearby drum)
HSK 7-9
pentagon
to echo what sb said / to back sb up from the sidelines (in an argument)
border area
parallelogram
remote / border area
periphery; rim; perimeter; surroundings / (computing) (attributive) peripheral / merch (abbr. for 周邊商品|周边商品)
HSK 7-9
unilateralism
equilateral triangle
border town / remote town
extremely vast / boundless / limitless / digressing / discursive / going off on tangents / straying far off topic
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *邊* | 邊* | *邊
suffix of a noun of locality
Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia
half of sth / one side of sth
nonagon
pillow talk
(geometry) side length
marginal returns
to have a connection with / to be close (to reality) / to be relevant / to have one's hand in
triangle
lit. the sun rises in the west (idiom) / fig. hell freezes over / pigs can fly
to keep close to the edge / near the mark / close to (the true figure) / relevant (used with negative to mean totally irrelevant)
lakeside
border control (abbr. for 邊境控制|边境控制) / to place sb on a border control list (a list of people to be detained if they attempt to enter or leave the country)
frame; rim
edge / fringe
(page) margin
unilateral
HSK 7-9
lit. a rabbit never eats the grass beside its own burrow (saying) / fig. even a scoundrel does not do harm in his immediate neighborhood
horizon / ends of the earth / remotest places
lace / decorative border
boundary line / border line
convex polygon
irregular quadrilateral / trapezium
border area
(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)
limit / bound / boundary / (economics) marginal
(Cantonese) to eat hot pot / hot pot
regular hexagon
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)
to choose a side (in a conflict, debate or rivalry); to take sides
boundary layer
(slang) (loanword) lesbian
foreign invasion / disaster on border due to incursion
side / side-room / room in the wings
to be on the verge of saying what is on one's mind
people living on the frontiers / inhabitants of a border area
(table tennis) edge ball / (fig.) actions that are technically legal but perhaps not respectable
close to the border / along the border
Fabian Society
outlandish sounds (wind blowing on frontier, wild horses neighing etc)
border station / strategic defensive position on frontier
the person who shares one's bed; partner; spouse
(computing) sidebar
to bend the rules / to skirt around the issue
dodecagon
border district / borderland

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