Character Details
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 方向 | fāngxiàng | fahng-tshang | 1+4 | 以 (人 person + 丿 slash) + 后 (厂 cliff + 人 person) | 方向 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Which direction? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Compound Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Structure | Construction | ||||||||||
| left‑right; noun | 方 (方 square radical) + 向 (宀 roof + 口 mouth + 冂 enclosure) | ||||||||||
| A square orientation (方) toward a direction you face (向) — direction. | |||||||||||