傍
bàng HSK6

by side of

傍 bàng
depend on verb
to rely on or lean against

这家小公司一直依傍着大型企业发展。

zhè jiā xiǎo gōng​sī yī​zhí yī bàng zhe dà​xíng qǐ​yè fā​zhǎn.

This small company has been growing by relying on large enterprises.

intimate relationship verb
to have an intimate relationship with someone, typically for financial benefit or social status

他总是想通过傍大款来致富。

tā zǒng​shì xiǎng tōng​guò bàng dà​kuǎn lái zhì​fù.

He's always trying to get rich by latching onto a wealthy partner.

near idiom
to be close to in space or time; to approach

他住在依山傍水的地方。

tā zhù zài yī​shān​bàng​shuǐ de dì​fang.

He lives in a place nestled against the mountains and by the water.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,558th most common 17.8 per million
Movie subtitles
3,132nd most common 2.82 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.43 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
3.07 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+508D

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)