肪
fáng HSK7

animal fat

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 方 represents the sound.

Components

⺼
⺼ Meaning component
ròu meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

方
方 Sound component
fāng, fang square

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangpaŋ
baŋ

說文解字

𦘺也。从肉方聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica