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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

旁边

Native Script:中文汉字

Pronunciation / Transliteration: páng biān

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Aside/əˈsaɪd/
adverbnounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1450 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"他站到旁边去让路。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adverb
  1. 1

    To one side; out of the way.

    "She stepped aside to let the other passengers pass."
As noun
  1. 1

    A remark or utterance made by an actor in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but supposedly not by the other characters.

    "The actor delivered a witty aside to the audience that drew immediate laughter."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English 'on side', combining the preposition 'on' and the noun 'side'. Over time, 'on' was reduced to the prefix 'a-', forming a standard adverbial construction indicating position or direction away from a main line or group.

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