About
The character 侧, whose traditional form is 側, combines the person radical 人 with the component 則, which historically served as a phonetic indicator and carried connotations of measurement or boundary, thus contributing to the idea of positional alignment. Its early meanings centered on the physical side of an object or body, later expanding to verbal senses such as leaning or tilting, and further to abstract uses like partiality or bias. The simplified form 侧 retains the person radical but substitutes 則 with the graphically reduced 则, preserving the original structural relationship while altering the right-hand component.
Etymology Hide
Example Sentences Hide
我坐在他的右侧。
请从侧门出去。
房子的侧面有窗户。
她侧身让我过去。
我们需要考虑问题的侧面。
在道路的右侧，有一家商店。
他从侧面了解了事情的真相。
工程师正在检查机器的侧面结构。