方 (fāng) in Mandarin: direction, side; square; method (in 地方, 方法, 方式)

Translation

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

Word origin

A pictographic character, traditionally read as the image of two boats lashed side by side or a plough, from which the senses of square, side and direction developed.

Origin: pictographic
Root: 方 (a pictograph giving the senses of square, side and direction)

Stroke order

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

方式

way, method, manner, mode

方法

method, way, approach

方正

anyway, in any case, upright

Appears in 9 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 方向fāng xiàngdirection, orientation 对方duì fāngthe other party, the other side 警方jǐng fāngthe police, police authorities 方面fāng miànaspect, side, respect 方便fāng biànconvenient, handy

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Grammar articles

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Mandarin Relative Clauses with 的 (de): How the Modifier Goes Before the Noun

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