Radical 70
Appearance
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 | ||
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
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Oracle bone script character
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Bronze script character
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Large seal script character
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Small seal script character
Derived characters
[edit]Strokes | Characters |
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+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 |
Sinogram
[edit]The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a second grade kanji.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
Literature
[edit]- Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
- 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.
External links
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