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
=
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
race / nationality / ethnicity / clan / by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族)
banner / flag / (in Qing times) Manchu (cf. 八旗[Ba1 qi2]) / administrative subdivision in inner Mongolia equivalent to 縣|县[xian4] county / CL:面[mian4]
旗
=
方
+
𠂉
+
其
:
Normally the Queen of Hearts (qi) has her banner (旗) hanging on the top of the watchtower (其) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2), but today a strange banner (旗) with a square (方) on it is hanging there instead. The Queen of Hearts wants to go up there to get the banner down, but somehow her key (𠂉) doesn't open the door anymore.
flag / variant of 旗[qi2]
旗
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方
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𠂉
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其
:
Normally the Queen of Hearts (qi) has her banner (旗) hanging on the top of the watchtower (其) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2), but today a strange banner (旗) with a square (方) on it is hanging there instead. The Queen of Hearts wants to go up there to get the banner down, but somehow her key (𠂉) doesn't open the door anymore.
to revolve / a loop / a circle
旋
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方
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𠂉
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正
:
Mnemonic symbol: a whirlwind.
Xu Xian (xu) is delivering packets in the anthill's kitchen (an2). First he has to disable the alarm, so he uses the key (𠂉) to open a square (方) and pushes the button. Next he whirls around the room delivering his packets so quickly that he creates a whirlwind (旋), which is so fierce that the stick figure (正) gets blown all around the room.
Xu Xian (xu) is delivering packets in the anthill's kitchen (an2). First he has to disable the alarm, so he uses the key (𠂉) to open a square (方) and pushes the button. Next he whirls around the room delivering his packets so quickly that he creates a whirlwind (旋), which is so fierce that the stick figure (正) gets blown all around the room.
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
:
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.
to hinder / (in the negative or interrogative) (no) harm / (what) harm
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