边
biān
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 邊
A side or an edge: the outer line of something, or the space right next to it. After a noun it means 'beside': 床边 'by the bed'. It also ends many place words, such as 这边, 那边 and 外边, where it is often unstressed. 一边…一边… means doing two things at once.
Cạnh, mép, bên: đường viền ngoài của một vật hoặc chỗ sát bên nó. Sau danh từ nghĩa là “bên cạnh”: 床边 (cạnh giường). Đứng cuối nhiều từ chỉ nơi chốn như 这边, 那边, 外边, thường đọc nhẹ. 一边…一边… nghĩa là “vừa… vừa…”.
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “边” mean?
A side or an edge: the outer line of something, or the space right next to it. After a noun it means 'beside': 床边 'by the bed'. It also ends many place words, such as 这边, 那边 and 外边, where it is often unstressed. 一边…一边… means doing two things at once.
Is “边” formal or informal?
边 is generally neutral.