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方

fāng · fang/Fāng · fang

Same in simplified and traditional Chinese

HSK 4Old HSK 5

Meaning

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fāng 方

  1. square
  2. power or involution (math.)
  3. upright
  4. honest
  5. fair and square
  6. direction
  7. side
  8. party (to a contract, dispute etc)
  9. place
  10. method
  11. prescription (medicine)
  12. just when
  13. only or just
  14. classifier for square things
  15. abbr. for square or cubic meter

Fāng 方

  1. surname Fang

In a sentence

2 examples
01

蛋(dàn)是(shì)圆(yuán)的(de)不(bú)是(shì)方(fāng)的(de)。

Eggs are round, not square.

Tatoeba: Chinese by corina · English by yujiang · CC BY 2.0 FR. Simplified Chinese conversion; Pinyin added or corrected.

02

这(zhè)张(zhāng)桌(zhuō)子(zi)是(shì)方(fāng)的(de)，不(bú)是(shì)圆(yuán)的(de)。

This table is square, not round.

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