| 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 | |||
| JapaneseKana: | 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 | ||||
Radical 70 orradical square (方部) meaning"square" is one of the 34Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4strokes.
In theKangxi Dictionary, there are 92 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under thisradical.
方 is also the 94th indexing component in theTable of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted bySimplified Chinese dictionaries published inmainland China.
| 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 |
The radical is also used as an independentChinese character. It is one of thekyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school inJapan.[1] It is a second grade kanji.[1]