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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

旁观

pángguān

spectator

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

spectator

02

non-participant

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 旁观 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 旁观 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

他在仅仅是在一旁旁观,而没有去阻止争吵。tā zài jǐn jǐn shì zài yī páng páng guān, ér méi yǒu qù zǔ zhǐ zhēng chǎo。

He just looked on and didn't stop the quarrel.

心有所触的人,会哭;只是旁观的人,只会笑。xīn yǒu suǒ chù de rén, huì kū; zhǐ shì páng guān de rén, zhǐ huì xiào。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 旁观.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 旁观.

Directly before

  • 只是旁观1
  • 一旁旁观1

Directly after

  • 旁观的1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 旁观

What does 旁观 mean in Chinese?

旁观 (pángguān) means spectator.

How do you pronounce 旁观?

旁观 is pronounced pángguān.

Is 旁观 an HSK word?

旁观 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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