(fàng) - to put, to place, to let go, to release in Mandarin
fàngTraditional: 放
Translation
to put, to place, to let go, to release
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: 攵/攴 (the 'strike, action' radical) gives the sense of an action, and 方 (fang) supplies the sound. The character means 'to put, to release, to let go'.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 攵 (action radical) + 方 (fang, phonetic)
Stroke order
放
Examples
。
Put the book on the table.
！
Let me go!
，。
The holiday has started and everyone is happy.
。
School is on holiday today.
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Please leave the window open.
放 (fàng) - to put, to place, to let go, to release.
Where this fits
Appears in 8 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 放.
Used in
Stories
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