fāng

sandalwood

A square  log  also provides the pronunciation

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

方 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

fāng

  

square

Evolution

枋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
枋 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
枋 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

fāng

sandalwood; tree used as timber; Santalum album; square wooden pillar

Most common words with 枋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

Santalum album

枋寮乡

Fangliao township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[Píng​dōng​Xiàn], Taiwan

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[p]raŋʔ-s

pjaengH

bìng

handle (n.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5260th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+678B

Shuowen

“枋,木。可作車。从木,方聲。”


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