Radical 70
| 方 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 方 (U+65B9) "square" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | fāng | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄈㄤ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | fang | |
| Wade–Giles: | fang1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | fōng | |
| Jyutping: | fong1 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | hong | |
| Japanese Kana: | ホウ hō (on'yomi) かた kata (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 방 bang | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 方字旁 fāngzìpáng | |
| Japanese name(s): | 方偏/かたへん katahen 方偏/ほうへん hōhen 方/ほう hō | |
| Hangul: | 모 mo | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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Radical 70 or radical square (方部) meaning "square" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 92 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
方 is also the 94th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution[]
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters[]
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 方 |
| +4 | 斺 斻 於 |
| +5 | 施 斾 斿 旀 |
| +6 | 旁 旂 旃 旄 旅 旆 旊 |
| +7 | 旇 旈 旉 旋 旌 旍 旎 族 |
| +8 | 旐 旑 |
| +9 | 旒 旓 旔 旕KO |
| +10 | 旖 旗 |
| +12 | 旘 旙 |
| +13 | 旚 |
| +14 | 旛 |
| +15 | 旜 旝 旞 |
| +16 | 旟 |
Literature[]
- Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York, 1987: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.CS1 maint: location (link)
- Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
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