坊
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lane (usually as part of a street name); memorial archway
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 土 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 坊
- Common rank
- #1,817
- Unicode
- U+574A
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 坊
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 坊间传言 | rumors; the word on the street | |
| 坊子区 | Fangzi, a district of Weifang City 濰坊市|潍坊市[Wei2 fang1 Shi4], Shandong | |
| 工作坊 | workshop; atelier; studio; (Tw) workshop; seminar | |
| 香坊区 | Xiangfang, a district of Harbin City 哈爾濱市|哈尔滨市[Ha1 er3 bin1 Shi4], Heilongjiang | |
| 以太坊 | Ethereum | |
| 本因坊 | Honinbo, major school of Go in Japan (1612-1940); title held by the winner of the Honinbo … | |
| 磨坊主 | miller | |
| 坊子 | see 坊子區|坊子区[Fang1 zi3 Qu1] | |
| 本因坊秀策 | Honinbo Shusaku (1829–1862), Japanese professional Go player, regarded as one of the great… | |
| 工坊 | workshop | |
| 作坊 | workshop (of artisan) | |
| 教坊 | imperial bureau responsible for music, dance and court entertainments; (old) brothel | |
| 坊间 | (originally) (in) the bookshops; (in modern usage) among the public; in public circulation… | |
| 香坊 | see 香坊區|香坊区[Xiang1 fang1 Qu1] | |
| 街坊邻里 | neighbors; the whole neighborhood | |
| 街坊四邻 | neighbors; the whole neighborhood | |
| 又想当婊子又想立牌坊 | lit. to lead the life of a whore but still want a monument put up to one's chastity (idiom… | |
| 贞节牌坊 | memorial arch in honor of a chaste widow | |
| 既要当婊子又要立牌坊 | see 又想當婊子又想立牌坊|又想当婊子又想立牌坊[you4 xiang3 dang1 biao3 zi5 you4 xiang3 li4 pai2 fang1] | |
| 牌坊 | memorial arch |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 方 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 方 sound part | square, rectangle; side; region; flag | |
| 放 | to release, to liberate, to free | |
| 房 | building, house, room | |
| 防 | to protect, to defend, to guard against | |
| 访 | to visit; to inquire, to ask | |
| 旁 | side; beside, close, nearby | |
| 仿 | to imitate, to copy; fake; as if | |
| 芳 | fragrant; beautiful, virtuous | |
| 纺 | to spin, to weave, to reel | |
| 肪 | animal fat | |
| 妨 | damage, harm; to impede, to obstruct; to undermine | |
| 邡 | a district in Sichuan province | |
| 彷 | similar, alike; to resemble | |
| 舫 | yacht, fancy boat | |
| 昉 | dawn, daybreak; to appear | |
| 鲂 | bream | |
| 钫 | francium |