Radical 70

方
方
方 (U+65B9) "square"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	fāng
Bopomofo:	ㄈㄤ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	fang
Wade–Giles:	fang1
Cantonese Yale:	fōng
Jyutping:	fong1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	hong
Japanese Kana:	ホウ hō (on'yomi); かた kata (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	방 bang
Names
Chinese name(s):	方字旁 fāngzìpáng
Japanese name(s):	方偏/かたへん katahen; 方偏/ほうへん hōhen; 方/ほう hō
Hangul:	모 mo
Stroke order animation

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

Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character

Derived characters

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.^[1] It is a second grade kanji.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

Literature

Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

External links

Unihan Database - U+65B9

[:0-1] "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

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