方
Meanings · fong1
- (noun) Chinese surname
Meanings · fong1
- square
- power or involution (mathematics)
- upright
- honest
- fair and square
- direction
- side
- party (to a contract, dispute etc)
- place
- method
- prescription (medicine)
- just when
- only or just
- classifier for square things
- abbr. for square or cubic meter
- locality
- to disobey
- to criticize and compare
- just now
- region
- local
- rectangular
- occultism
- a surname
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 方 Fāng CC-CEDICT · Mandarinsurname Fang
- 方 fāng CC-CEDICT · Mandarinsquare; power or involution (math.); upright; honest; fair and square; direction; side; party (to a contract, dispute etc); …
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: fang1. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 40 senses · 1 Cantonese reading
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
fong1
Cantonese word readings for 方. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character · Etymology 1
- side; aspect; party
- (obsolete) joined boats; a raft; to cross by raft or boat
- (literary) to match; to be equal to; to be comparable with
- (literary) to compare; to liken
- (literary) to distinguish, identify, or classify; kind, category
- (literary) to possess; to occupy; to take over
- (literary) to bind; to tie up
- (literary) to defy; to disobey
- direction; orientation; quarter
- place; region; locality; (attributive) local, regional
- (literary, historical) state; territory; frontier; realm; the quarters of the world
- (literary) square; measuring so much on each side
- square; rectangular; cubical
- (literary) the earth; solid ground (as square, in contrast with round heaven)
- (literary) a wooden writing tablet; written records
- upright; honest; proper
- standard; norm; rule; law; principle
- method; way; means; strategy; art, technique
- formula; recipe; especially a medical prescription
- (mathematics) power; especially a square or cube
- (historical) a unit of area or earthwork volume
- Classifier for square or rectangular objects.
- (literary) a sacrifice to the spirits of the four directions
- (historical) a unit of the Yellow Turban army
- (literary) only; just; only then; not until
- (literary) now; currently; just as; when, while
- (literary) about to; going to; will
- (literary) however; instead; on the contrary
- (linguistics) short for 方言 (fāngyán, “dialect”)
- a surname
character · Etymology 1
- only used in 方與 (Fángyù, “an ancient county in present-day Yutai County, Shandong”)
- (alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 房
- (alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 防 (fáng)
character · Etymology 2
- (Mainland-China, alt-of, neologism, pronunciation-spelling, slang) Pronunciation spelling of 慌 (huāng, “to panic”).
- (Mainland-China, alt-of, neologism, pronunciation-spelling, slang) Pronunciation spelling of 慌 (huāng, “panicky”).
character · Etymology 4
- (Mainland-China, alt-of, alternative, neologism, slang) alternative form of 旁 (“broad; extensive; all around”)
- (only in compounds) used in 方羊, 方佯, 方洋: to wander, to roam; to soar
- (only in compounds) used in 方皇: to wander; a mythical snake-like creature
character · Etymology 5
- (only in compounds) used in 方良: a 罔兩／罔两; a mountain or marsh spirit
character · Etymology 6
- (acoustics) phon; a unit of apparent loudness
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