Radical 70

方
← 69 Radical 70 (U+2F45) 71 →
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

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.

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