妨 · fáng
interfere with, impede, obstruct
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
interfere with, impede, obstruct
- Mandarin
- fáng
- Cantonese
- fong4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 妨 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 방
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+59A8
- Radical
- 女 · 38
- Strokes
- 7 · Unihan
- Residual
- 4
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
7 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 妨
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 方 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 方聲
Line 9575 · ⿰女方 · 方聲 · source reference 4431730
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- phjang · 敷方 反切 · #835
- Middle Chinese
- phjangH · 敷亮 反切 · #2911
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 6677 · phjang = 宕合三平陽滂 · phjangH = 宕合三去陽滂
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- fáng
- kCantonese
- fong4
- kDefinition
- interfere with, impede, obstruct
- kTotalStrokes
- 7
- kRSUnicode
- 38.4
- kGradeLevel
- 5
- kTGH
- 2013:922
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- fáng 21033.040
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- fāng 0307.060 · fáng 0309.010
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- fáng 093.100
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- fáng(22) fāng(13)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- fáng粵fong4
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 敷方 敷亮
- Kangxi positions
- 0257.100
- Guangyun positions
- 178.05 426.27
- GSR references
- 0740q
- Cangjie
- VYHS
- Four-corner
- 4042.7