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
trip / travel / to travel / brigade (army)
旅
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方
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𠂉
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氏
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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.
bright / glittery / Taiwan pr. [jiao4]
敫
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攵
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方
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白
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Joan of Arc has been playing her new ancient musical instrument day and night in the aorta, until her neighbors couldn't stand it anymore. They captured her in a square and threaten to destroy her ancient musical instrument with a sledgehammer shouldn't she cease to play it. Joan of Arc has no choice but to wave a white flag in defeat.
surname Jiao
敫
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攵
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方
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白
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Joan of Arc has been playing her new ancient musical instrument day and night in the aorta, until her neighbors couldn't stand it anymore. They captured her in a square and threaten to destroy her ancient musical instrument with a sledgehammer shouldn't she cease to play it. Joan of Arc has no choice but to wave a white flag in defeat.
surname Ao
敖
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土
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攵
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方
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Mnemonic symbol: a wanderer. Albert Einstein (Ø) wants to build a particle accelerator in the aorta's kitchen (ao2), so he ripped open a square (方) area with a sledgehammer (攵), the earth (土) around the hole forming a square as well. As he finishes a wanderer (敖) enters and promptly falls into the hole.
to ramble / to rove / old variant of 熬[ao2]
敖
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土
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攵
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方
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Mnemonic symbol: a wanderer. Albert Einstein (Ø) wants to build a particle accelerator in the aorta's kitchen (ao2), so he ripped open a square (方) area with a sledgehammer (攵), the earth (土) around the hole forming a square as well. As he finishes a wanderer (敖) enters and promptly falls into the hole.
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