方
fāngFāng HSK1

square

方 fāng frequency
party noun
a party to a contract, legal dispute, or negotiation

双方终于达成了协议。

shuāng fāng zhōng​yú dá​chéng le xié​yì.

The two sides finally reached an agreement.

direction directional
direction, side, place, or region

他来自遥远的南方。

tā lái​zì yáo​yuǎn de nán fāng.

He comes from the distant South.

just when adverb
at the moment of; just; only then

到那时，真相方大白。

dào nà​shí, zhēn​xiàng fāng dà​bái.

Only then will the truth come to light.

measure measure word
classifier for square objects or abbreviation for square/cubic meters

这一方印章很珍贵。

zhè yī fāng yìn​zhāng hěn zhēn​guì.

This seal is very precious.

method noun
a method, way of doing things, or a medical prescription

医生给他开了一个药方。

yī​shēng gěi tā kāi le yī gè yào fāng.

The doctor wrote him a prescription.

power noun
power or involution in mathematics, such as the square of a number

三的二次方等于九。

sān de èr cì fāng děng​yú jiǔ.

Three squared equals nine.

square shape adjective
square in shape; a four-sided polygon

这个盒子是方的，不是圆的。

zhè​ge hé​zi shì fāng de, bù shì yuán de.

This box is square, not round.

upright noun
upright, honest, or fair in character

做人应当外圆内方，讲究原则。

zuò​rén yīng​dāng wài yuán nèi fāng, jiǎng​jiu yuán​zé.

One should be flexible on the outside but principled on the inside.

方 Fāng
Fang proper name
surname Fang

方先生是我们的老师。

Fāng xiān​sheng shì wǒ​men de lǎo​shī.

Mr. Fang is our teacher.

Frequency
Character
Written text
60th most common 2546.5 per million
Movie subtitles
160th most common 1126.0 per million appears in 98% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
50.6 per million appears in 15% of films
Written text
273.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+65B9

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)