方

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/方

Glyph origin
– blade; tip of a blade. Original form of ; later borrowed to mean “side”. Other theories regarding the origin of this character also exist.

It is unrelated to, from which characters like and  are derived.

Etymology 1

 * "side; square; region"
 * Probably related to,.


 * "parallel boats"
 * Cognate with, . According to STEDT, from ; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. According to , this etymon is an area word; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.


 * "just now"; "now"
 * Cognate with . Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (STEDT).


 * "method; law"
 * Etymology not certain. May be the same word as . Cognate with . Perhaps cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 . Alternatively, it may belong to 🇨🇬 < 🇨🇬. If so, it belongs to an Austroasiatic allofam which includes . "Law; norm; standard" is a common extension of "form; shape".

Definitions

 * 1)  parallel; side by side
 * 2)  parallel boats; raft made of bamboo
 * 3)  to match; to be equal to
 * 4)  to compare; to set side by side
 * 5)  to differentiate; to discriminate
 * 6)  to occupy; to take up
 * 7)  square; rectangle; cube
 * 8) side; aspect; party
 * 9) place; region; locality
 * 10) orientation; direction
 * 11)  law; rule; reason
 * 12) method; way
 * 13)  sort; category; kind
 * 14)  moral principle and knowledge; learning
 * 15)  earth; solid earth; ground
 * 16)  prescription
 * 17)  power
 * 18)  area surrounding (something); surroundings; vicinity
 * 19) upright; honest; irreproachable
 * 20) just; just when; at the time when; just now; now
 * 21) just; only
 * 22) at (a specific time); when
 * 23) will; going to
 * 1)  sort; category; kind
 * 2)  moral principle and knowledge; learning
 * 3)  earth; solid earth; ground
 * 4)  prescription
 * 5)  power
 * 6)  area surrounding (something); surroundings; vicinity
 * 7) upright; honest; irreproachable
 * 8) just; just when; at the time when; just now; now
 * 9) just; only
 * 10) at (a specific time); when
 * 11) will; going to
 * 1)  area surrounding (something); surroundings; vicinity
 * 2) upright; honest; irreproachable
 * 3) just; just when; at the time when; just now; now
 * 4) just; only
 * 5) at (a specific time); when
 * 6) will; going to
 * 1) just; just when; at the time when; just now; now
 * 2) just; only
 * 3) at (a specific time); when
 * 4) will; going to
 * 1) just; only
 * 2) at (a specific time); when
 * 3) will; going to
 * 1) just; only
 * 2) at (a specific time); when
 * 3) will; going to
 * 1) at (a specific time); when
 * 2) will; going to
 * 1) at (a specific time); when
 * 2) will; going to
 * 1) will; going to
 * 1) will; going to

Descendants
Others:

Definitions

 * 1) to disobey
 * 1) to disobey

Etymology 2
Rendering of a dialectal pronunciation of.

Etymology 6
Borrowed from.

Definitions

 * 1) phon (unit of apparent loudness)

Kanji

 * 1) direction
 * 2) person
 * 3) alternative
 * 4)  square

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) direction, way, side
 * 2) more so (preceded by ～の, often followed by ～が)
 * 1) more so (preceded by ～の, often followed by ～が)

Noun

 * 1)  person

Suffix

 * 1) way, method (of doing)

Etymology 3
pe > ɸe > we > e.

Suffix

 * 1) a suffix expressing location, direction, or time

Etymology 4
From. Originally a compound of.

Noun

 * 1) a person's appearance
 * 2) the state or situation of a thing
 * 3) the general trend, tenor, or feel of a thing
 * 4) one's social station, status, or quality
 * 5) the way or means of doing something, how one does something
 * 6) the reason or circumstances for something