偏旁 piānpáng component of a Chinese character
component of a Chinese character (as the radical or the phonetic part)
How to remember 偏旁: 偏 slanting + 旁 side = component of a Chinese character.
Characters
How it is used
- A component/radical of a Chinese character - the recurring side pieces like 氵or 木 - 这个字的偏旁是什么 (this character's component is what?).
- A linguistics/pedagogy term; 偏旁部首 (piānpáng bùshǒu) pairs it with 部首 (the indexing radical) when discussing character structure.
- Used in teaching how characters are built and looked up in dictionaries.