方
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square; power or involution (math.); upright; honest; fair and square; direction; side; party (to a contract, dispute etc); place; method; prescription (medicine); just when; only or just; classifier for square things; abbr. for square or cubic meter
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 方 itself
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 方
- Common rank
- #114
- Unicode
- U+65B9
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 方 is formed
Components 亠
? unknown part
How to remember it
direction · Heisig RSH #494
dagger + top hat — as a component also called: compass
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 方
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 地方 | region; regional (away from the central administration); local | |
| 地方 | place; location; area; space; territory; aspect; part; CL:處|处[chu4] | |
| 大方县 | Dafang, a county in Bijie City 畢節市|毕节市[Bi4 jie2 Shi4], Guizhou | |
| 方山县 | Fangshan, a county in Lüliang City 呂梁市|吕梁市[Lu : 3 liang2 Shi4], Shanxi | |
| 中方县 | Zhongfang, a county in Huaihua City 懷化市|怀化市[Huai2 hua4 Shi4], Hunan | |
| 地方性 | local | |
| 大方之家 | learned person; expert in a certain field; abbr. to 方家[fang1 jia1] | |
| 西方人 | Westerner; Occidental | |
| 一方面 | on the one hand | |
| 方子 | prescription (medicine) | |
| 大方 | see 大方縣|大方县[Da4 fang1 Xian4] | |
| 大方 | expert; scholar; mother earth; a type of green tea | |
| 大方 | generous; magnanimous; stylish; in good taste; easy-mannered; natural and relaxed | |
| 方文山 | Vincent Fang (1969-), Taiwanese multi-Golden Melody Award lyricist | |
| 大大方方 | confident; calm; natural; poised | |
| 方法学 | methodology | |
| 一方 | a party (in a contract or legal case); one side; area; region | |
| 方山 | see 方山縣|方山县[Fang1 shan1 Xian4] | |
| 方头 | square headed | |
| 中方 | the Chinese side (in an international venture) |
Sound family
These characters use 方 as their sound component — 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 | |
| 坊 | neighborhood, district, community; street, lane; mill | |
| 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 |