fáng
defend
Phonosemantic compound. 阝 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
Most common words with 防
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to protect | ||
to prevent | ||
firefighting | ||
to defend | ||
to prevent |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[m-p]aŋ | bjang | fáng | dike |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 44.3537% of movies
849th most common character in movies
548th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+9632 |
Shuowen | “防,隄也。从,方聲。埅,防或从土。” |
Sources
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