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放

fàng

put

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

Components
方 sound component

方  Sound component

fāng

  

square

攵 meaning component

攵  Meaning component

pū

  

tap

攵 is a component form of 攴. Depicts a hand.

Evolution

放 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
放 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
放 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
放 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

放  

fàng

put, release, free, liberate; to put; to place; to release; to free; to let go; to let out; to set off (fireworks)

Most common words with 放
Freq.
Word
Meaning

放

to put

放弃

to renounce

放松

to loosen

放下

to lay down

开放

to bloom

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)

敫

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*paŋʔ

pjangX

fǎng

imitate

*paŋ-s

pjangH

fàng

release; let go


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 98.0618% of movies

176th most common character in movies

291st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+653E

Shuowen

“放，逐也。从攴，方聲。”


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