昉
fǎng

bright dawn

Components

日
日 Meaning component
rì sun

sun

方
方 Sound component
fāng, fang square

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartpjangXpaŋʔjust then, at that time
Zhengzhangpaŋʔ

說文解字

明也。从日方聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)