訪
fǎng

visit

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

Components

言
言 Meaning component
yán speech
方
方 Sound component
fāng, fang square

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartphjangHpʰaŋ-s enquire, scrutinize

說文解字

《說文》：“訪，汎謀曰訪。从言，方聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

访 fǎng visit Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 讠 represents the meaning and 方 represents the sound. Simplified form of 訪.

Components

讠
讠 Meaning component
yán speech

讠 is a component form of 言.

方
方 Sound component
fāng, fang square

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode