Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

傍: bystander, side

Also: besides, while, nearby, third person

JLPT N112 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 旁 gives the sound

12 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

ボウbou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 傍聴ぼうちょうlistening (to a lecture, hearing…
  • 傍観ぼうかんlooking on; standing by and watching
  • 傍受ぼうじゅinterception; monitoring; tapping
  • 路傍ろぼうroadside
  • 傍若無人ぼうじゃくぶじんbehaving outrageously as though there were…

かたわらkatawara · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 傍らかたわらside; edge; beside

Also read わき, おか-, はた, そば, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · bàng

Same form: 傍 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
傍 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
傍 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin bàng most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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