方
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
方 character breakdown
"dot" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 3) / see also 點|点[dian3]
This character shall be represented by a petal (丶) when appearing in other characters.
Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is napping in the space station's living room (Ø3) and hugging a petal (丶).
Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is napping in the space station's living room (Ø3) and hugging a petal (丶).
ten thousand / a great number
万
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丆
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㇆
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Willy Walrus needs to dig up the floor in the anthill's bathroom, but he is tired of doing so manually with a plough. To make his life easier, he sets up a wind wheel for electricity, connects a neuron to the wind wheel and the plough to transmit the electricity and uses his new DIY electric plough to dig much faster.
Characters with 方 as component
surname Fang
房
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户
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方
:
Frankenstein's monster inspects a suspicious house just inside the anglepod's kitchen. It's a gingerbread house, and the owner seems to be very interested in the weather: On top of it there is a square frame with a wooden swinging door attached to it, which seems to be a wind measurement apparatus.
house / room / CL:間|间[jian1] / branch of an extended family / classifier for family members (or concubines)
房
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户
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方
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Frankenstein's monster inspects a suspicious house just inside the anglepod's kitchen. It's a gingerbread house, and the owner seems to be very interested in the weather: On top of it there is a square frame with a wooden swinging door attached to it, which seems to be a wind measurement apparatus.
one side / other / different / lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂[dao1], 亻[ren2] etc)
旁
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六
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冖
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方
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Mnemonic symbol: bourbon, 波旁.
The beast (六) just entered the anglepod (ang2) and got a quest from Pinocchio (p). Pinocchio asked the beast to fit a cooking top (冖) into a square (方). If he succeeds, he'll get a bottle of bourbon (旁), so the beast is jumping on the cooking top madly trying to push it through the square.
The beast (六) just entered the anglepod (ang2) and got a quest from Pinocchio (p). Pinocchio asked the beast to fit a cooking top (冖) into a square (方). If he succeeds, he'll get a bottle of bourbon (旁), so the beast is jumping on the cooking top madly trying to push it through the square.
trip / travel / to travel / brigade (army)
旅
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方
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𠂉
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氏
:
Loki (lü) and Christopher MacLeod (氏) have been exiled to the space station for their crimes. In the space station's living room (Ø3) they plan to travel back to earth (旅). They found that there is a secret square (方) to which they found the key (𠂉). Certain that this is the way to travel back to earth they open the frame with the key only to find that this is the emergency escape hatch to be used after splashdowns.
race / nationality / ethnicity / clan / by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族)
Words with 方
(Chinese medicine) the seven kinds of prescriptions 大方[da4 fang1], 小方[xiao3 fang1], 緩方|缓方[huan3 fang1], 急方[ji2 fang1], 奇方[ji1 fang1], 偶方[ou3 fang1] and 重方[chong2 fang1] or 複方|复方[fu4 fang1]
imperial sword (giving bearer plenipotentiary powers) / imperial Chinese version of 007 licensed to kill