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一边

yī biān 1–1 → 4–1

one side; either side; on the one hand; on the other hand; doing while

HSK level
HSK 1
HSK 2.0 level 3 · HSK 3.0 level 1
Characters
2
一 · 边
Syllables
2
yī biān
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,241

Part of speech: d,f

Character by character

  • 一yī1 strokesHSK 1one; a, an; alone
  • 边biān6 strokesHSK 1 traditional 邊edge, margin, side, border

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 一边站着。

    Yī biān zhàn zhe

    Stand aside.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 一边. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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