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方

方

See also: 万

Translingual

Stroke order
Taiwanese stroke order
Taiwanese
stroke order

Han character

方 (radical 70 方+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 卜竹尸 (YHS), four-corner 00227, composition ⿱丶万)

  1. Kangxi radical #70, ⽅ ‎(“square”).

Derived characters

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 481, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13620
  • Dae Jaweon: page 842, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2172, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+65B9

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 方

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 方
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (方) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
縍 *paːŋ
榜 *paːŋʔ, *praːŋs, *braːŋ
蒡 *paːŋʔ, *braːŋ
牓 *paːŋʔ
螃 *paːŋʔ, *paːŋs, *baːŋ
搒 *paːŋs, *braːŋ
舫 *paːŋs, *paŋs
謗 *paːŋs
雱 *pʰaːŋ
磅 *pʰaːŋ, *pʰraːŋ
霶 *pʰaːŋ
滂 *pʰaːŋ
鎊 *pʰaːŋ
髈 *pʰaːŋʔ, *baːŋ
彷 *baːŋ, *pʰaŋʔ
趽 *baːŋ, *paŋ, *paŋs
房 *baːŋ, *baŋ
篣 *baːŋ, *braːŋ
騯 *baːŋ, *praːŋ, *braːŋ
傍 *baːŋ, *baːŋs
膀 *baːŋ
旁 *baːŋ
徬 *baːŋs
閍 *praːŋ
祊 *praːŋ
嗙 *praːŋ
方 *paŋ, *baŋ
汸 *paŋ
坊 *paŋ, *baŋ
邡 *paŋ, *pʰaŋs
枋 *paŋ
鈁 *paŋ
蚄 *paŋ
肪 *paŋ, *baŋ
鴋 *paŋ, *baŋ
牥 *paŋ
昉 *paŋʔ
瓬 *paŋʔ
放 *paŋʔ, *paŋs
倣 *paŋʔ
芳 *pʰaŋ
淓 *pʰaŋ
妨 *pʰaŋ, *pʰaŋs
紡 *pʰaŋʔ
仿 *pʰaŋʔ
髣 *pʰaŋʔ
鶭 *pʰaŋʔ
訪 *pʰaŋs
防 *baŋ, *baŋs
魴 *baŋ

Ideogram (指事) – the hilt. As in 方 itself, 放 (OC *paŋʔ, *paŋs) and 旁 (OC *baːŋ). Compare 刀.

It is unrelated to 㫃 (“fluttering flag”), from which characters like 旗 (OC *ɡɯ, “flag”) and 旅 (OC *ɡ·raʔ, “troops”) are derived.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 方 方
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 並 (3) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 陽 (106) 陽 (106)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 符方切 府良切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bʉɐŋ/ /pʉɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bʷiɐŋ/ /pʷiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /biuɑŋ/ /piuɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /buaŋ/ /puaŋ/
Li
Rong		 /biuaŋ/ /piuaŋ/
Wang
Li		 /bĭwaŋ/ /pĭwaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱiwaŋ/ /piwaŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fáng fāng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 方 方 方
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fāng fāng fāng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pjang › ‹ pjang › ‹ pjang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C-paŋ/ /*paŋ/ /*paŋ/
English square method just, then

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 方 方
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 3023 3056
Phonetic
component		 方 方
Rime
group		 陽 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 方 房
Old
Chinese		 /*paŋ/ /*baŋ/
Notes 甲金文象槳即榜初文，下初爲單筆，猶旂左初亦作單杆

Definitions

方

  1. square; rectangle
  2. aspect; side
  3. place; region
  4. method; way
  5. prescription
  6. (mathematics) power
    • 2的3次方是8。  ―  2 de 3 cìfāng shì 8.  ―  2 to the 3rd power is 8.
  7. aspect; side
    方面  ―  fāngmiàn  ―  aspect; side
  8. region
  9. (literary) just now
  10. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

方

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. direction
  2. person
  3. alternative

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
方
ほう
Grade: 2
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 方 ‎(pjang).

Pronunciation

Noun

方 ‎(hiragana ほう, romaji hō, historical hiragana はう)

  1. direction, way, side
  2. moreso (preceded by ～の, often followed by ～が)
    この時計 (とけい)の方 (ほう)がそのより高 (たか)いです。
    Kono tokei no hō ga sono yori takai desu.
    This watch is more expensive than that [one].

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
方
かた
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

方 ‎(hiragana かた, romaji kata)

  1. (polite) person
    あの方 (かた)。
    Ano kata.
    That person. (polite)
    あの方 (かた)はどなたですか。
    Ano kata wa donata desu ka.
    Who is that gentleman? (formal)
Synonyms

Suffix

方 ‎(hiragana かた, romaji -kata)

  1. way, method (of doing)

Etymology 3

pe > ɸe > we > e.

Suffix

方 ‎(hiragana え, romaji -e, historical hiragana へ)

  1. a suffix expressing location, direction, or time
Derived terms

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
方
さま
Grade: 2
Irregular

From Old Japanese. Originally a compound of さ ‎(sa, “that”, pronominal indicating a person, place, thing, or direction in the middle distance) +‎ ま ‎(ma, “likeness, way, similarity”, suffix indicating a quality).[3]

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

方 ‎(hiragana さま, romaji sama)

  1. a person's appearance (as of body, or style, or face, etc.)
  2. the state or situation of a thing
  3. the general trend, tenor, or feel of a thing
  4. one's social station, status, or quality
  5. the way or means of doing something, how one does something
  6. the reason or circumstances for something

References

  1. 1 2 3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1 2 3 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
  3. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan

Korean

Hanja

方 • ‎(bang)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 방 (revised: bang, McCune-Reischauer: pang, Yale: pang)
  • Name (hangeul): 모()
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Vietnamese

Han character

方 (phương, vuông, quách)

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