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旁

Mandarin · pinyin páng

one side
other
different
lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂 dāo, 亻 rén etc)

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旁: páng · side; by side, close by, near

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2 · pang2

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bong6 · pong4

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character

side; beside; close by
other; else
(linguistics) radical (of a character)
widespread
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to assist
a surname

character

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 傍 (“to be near to; to approach; to depend on; to rely on”)

character

only used in 旁勃

character

only used in 旁旁 (bēngbēng)

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