DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

七方

Mandarin · pinyin qī fāng

(Chinese medicine) the seven kinds of prescriptions 大方 dà fāng, 小方 xiǎo fāng, 緩方 huǎn fāng, 急方 jí fāng, 奇方 jī fāng, 偶方 ǒu fāng and 重方 chóng fāng or 複方 fù fāng

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

七: qī · seven
方: fāng · a square, rectangle; a region; local

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

1–1 · qi1 fang1

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

2character links3source references

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

七方 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

name

(～鎮) Qifang (a town in Zaoyang, Xiangyang, Hubei, China)

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack