侧
cèzhāi HSK6

side

侧 (側) cè frequency
side directional
the side of an object or a lateral position

我们的学校在马路的左侧。

wǒ​men de xué​xiào zài mǎ​lù de zuǒ cè.

Our school is on the left side of the road.

lean verb
to incline towards or tilt to one side

他侧着身子从人群中挤了过去。

tā cè zhe shēn​zi cóng rén​qún zhōng jǐ le guò​qu.

He squeezed through the crowd sideways.

侧 (側) zhāi
slant verb
lean on one side

这幅画挂侧了，你帮我扶正一下。

zhè fú huà guà zhāi le, nǐ bāng wǒ fú​zhèng yī​xià.

This painting is hanging crooked; help me straighten it.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,220th most common 108.3 per million
Movie subtitles
1,740th most common 30.0 per million appears in 13% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
19.4 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
79.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Traditional
側
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+4FA7

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