旁 — one side; other; different
- Pinyin
- páng
- Strokes
- 10
- HSK level
- HSK 2
- Handwriting
- recognition only
How to write 旁: 10 strokes
Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.
Words with 旁 in the HSK syllabus: 5
Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.
- 旁边pángbiānside; adjacent placeHSK 2
- 旁人pángrénother people; bystanders; onlookers; outsidersHSK 7–9
- 偏旁piānpángcomponent of a Chinese characterHSK 7–9
- 袖手旁观xiùshǒu-pángguānto watch with folded arms; to look on without lifting a fingerHSK 7–9
- 一旁yìpángaside; to the side ofHSK 7–9
Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.