旁
páng HSK1

side

旁 páng
side directional
one side; beside; nearby

他坐在我身旁。

tā zuò zài wǒ shēn páng.

He is sitting beside me.

component directional
lateral component of a Chinese character

“汉”字的左边是三点水旁。

“ Hàn” zì de zuǒ​bian shì sān diǎn shuǐ páng.

The left side of the character 'Han' is the 'three-dot water' radical.

other pronoun
other; different; else

除了他，没有旁的人知道这件事。

chú​le tā, méi​yǒu páng de rén zhī​dào zhè jiàn shì.

No one else knows about this besides him.

Frequency
Character
Written text
981st most common 166.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,108th most common 83.3 per million appears in 39% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
23.5 per million appears in 10% of films
Written text
44.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+65C1

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