fáng
house
Phonosemantic compound. 户 represents the meaning and 方 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[Cə-N-]paŋ | bjang | fáng | side-room |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 82.4924% of movies
302nd most common character in movies
512th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+623F |
Shuowen | “房,室在旁也。从戶,方聲。” |
Sources
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