Kilo Lingo

方

fāng

Traditional: 方

#5019 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

direction, side; square; method (in 地方, 方法, 方式)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 方

方

Examples

。

This is a very interesting place.

？

Do you have any good methods?

。

I like the way he does things.

。

Please walk in this direction.

双shuāng。

Both sides have agreed.

方 (fāng) covers direction, side, and square shape, and extends to method or approach. It builds high-frequency vocabulary including 地方 (place), 方法 (method), and 方式 (way, manner).

Related words

地方

place, location, area

方法

method, way, approach

方式

way, method, manner, mode

方正

anyway, in any case, upright

Appears in 4 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 方.

地方dì fāngplace, location, area方式fāng shìway, method, manner, mode方法fāng fǎmethod, way, approach方正fāng zhènganyway, in any case, upright

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