Chinese Character Wiki

昉

fǎng

bright dawn

Components
日 meaning component

日  Meaning component

rì

  

sun

sun

方 sound component

方  Sound component

fāng

  

square

Evolution

昉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
昉 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
昉 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

昉  

fǎng

bright dawn, daybreak; appear; dawn; to begin

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*paŋʔ

pjangX

fǎng

just then, at that time


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+6609

Shuowen

《說文新附》：“昉，明也。从日，方聲。”


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