旁 páng
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 方 — square, rectangle
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
旁人
pángrén
other people; outsiders
Characters in this word
人 rén
- Strokes
- 2
- Radical
- 人 — man, person
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 他宁可独自承担后果，也不愿把旁人牵连进来。 Tā nìngkě dúzì chéngdān hòuguǒ, yě bùyuàn bǎ pángrén qiānlián jìnlái. He would rather bear the consequences alone than drag outsiders into it.
- 别太在意旁人怎么看你。 Bié tài zàiyì pángrén zěnme kàn nǐ. Don't care too much about what other people think of you.
- 房间里只有我们两个，旁人都出去了。 Fángjiān lǐ zhǐyǒu wǒmen liǎng gè, pángrén dōu chūqù le. Only the two of us were in the room; everyone else had left.
Related words
- 旁边 pángbiān beside, next to
- 旁 páng side; beside
- 偏旁 piānpáng radical; component of a Chinese character
- 袖手旁观 xiùshǒupángguān to stand by and do nothing
- 一旁 yìpáng side; nearby
- 别人 biérén other people, others
- 病人 bìngrén patient, sick person
- 工人 gōngrén worker
- 家人 jiārén family member
- 老人 lǎorén old person, the elderly
- 男人 nánrén man
- 女人 nǚrén woman