(biān) - side, edge, border, by (alongside) in Mandarin
biānTraditional: 邊
Translation
side, edge, border, by (alongside)
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with the walk radical 辶 (chuò, movement) and a phonetic element, originally referring to an outer edge or border.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 辶 (chuò, movement) + phonetic element
Stroke order
边
Examples
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He stood by the side of the road waiting for a car.
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There is a cup on the edge of the table.
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She sang as she walked.
河钓。
Many people are fishing by the river.
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Please sit beside me.
边 (biān) means a side, edge, or border, and also marks position alongside something. Doubled as 一边...一边 it expresses two actions happening at once.
Where this fits
Appears in 5 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 边.
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