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旁

Cantonese · source Jyutpingbong6#

busy
interlaced
complicated

Cantonese · source Jyutpingpong4#

beside
one side
other
side
self
the right-hand side of split Chinese character, often the phonetic
collateral
elsewhere
widely
heresy

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Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.

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Reading & tones

bong66 · low level

pong44 · low falling

Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.

Reading difference from Unihan

旁 has the reading bong6 here; Unihan’s citation reading is pong4. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 旁 bong6 as its own entry.

Computed by zimai: each syllable of the CC-Canto word reading is compared with Unihan 17.0.0 kCantonese for its character. The comparison does not say why a reading differs (a changed tone, 變音, a reading tied to one meaning, or a source variant).

Same syllable, six tones

bong梆bong1watchman's rattle 榜bong2notice or announcement 蒡bong3bong4—bong5—傍bong6near

Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.

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Written characters

旁

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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries

CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:

旁 páng CC-CEDICT · Mandarinone side; other; different; lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂 dāo, 亻 rén etc)

A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.

CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: pang2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

bong6 · pong4

Cantonese word readings for 旁. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

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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