彷 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

fǎng, páng

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

Components

彳 Meaning component

chì

walk

彳 is a component form of 行.

方 Sound component

fāng

square

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

fǎng

like, resembling; resemble

páng

irresolute

fǎng

seemingly

Most common words with 彷

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	彷徨	to hesitate
	彷	irresolute

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[b]ˤaŋ	bang	páng	bang-hwang hestitate

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3487th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	7
Unicode	U+5F77

Sources