Radical 70
Chinese character radical
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::summary Chinese character radical ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| 70 | uni |
| meaning | square |
| pny | fāng |
| bopo | ㄈㄤ |
| gr | fang |
| wade | fang1 |
| jyutping | fong1 |
| yale | fōng |
| poj | hong |
| cn | 方字旁 fāngzìpáng |
| onyomi | ホウ hō |
| kunyomi | かた kata |
| jp | 方偏/かたへん katahen |
| 方偏/ほうへん hōhen | |
| 方/ほう hō | |
| hang | 모 mo |
| hanja | 방 bang |
| :: |
|70|uni=65B9 |meaning=square |pny= fāng |bopo= ㄈㄤ |gr= fang |wade= fang1 |jyutping= fong1 |yale= fōng |poj= hong |cn= 方字旁 fāngzìpáng |onyomi= ホウ hō |kunyomi= かた kata |jp= 方偏/かたへん katahen 方偏/ほうへん hōhen 方/ほう hō |hang= 모 mo |hanja= 방 bang
Radical 70 or radical square (方部) meaning "square" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 92 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
方 is also the 94th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
File:方-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character File:方-bronze.svg|Bronze script character File:方-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character File:方-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 方 |
| +4 | 斺 斻 於 |
| +5 | 施 斾 斿 旀 |
| +6 | 旁 旂 旃 旄 旅 旆 旊 |
| +7 | 旇 旈 旉 旋 旌 旍 旎 族 |
| +8 | 旐 旑 |
| +9 | 旒 旓 旔 旕KO |
| +10 | 旖 旗 |
| +12 | 旘 旙 |
| +13 | 旚 |
| +14 | 旛 |
| +15 | 旜 旝 旞 |
| +16 | 旟 |
| :: |
Sinogram
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a second grade kanji.
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