匚

See also: 匸 and ㄈ

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• 𠥓 (based on the large seal script form of the character)
• 𠤬

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 匚
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形)

Han character

匚 (radical 22 匚+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 一女 (MV), four-corner 7171₀)

1. box
2. Kangxi radical #22, ⼕ ‎(“right open box”).

Descendants

• ㄈ

References

• KangXi: page 153, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2595
• Dae Jaweon: page 344, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 81, character 3
• Unihan data for U+531A

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		匚

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fāng, fàng (fang¹, fang⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄤ, ㄈㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fong¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fông
• Min Nan (POJ): hong

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: fāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄤ
    • Wade-Giles: fang¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fang
    • IPA ^(key): /fɑŋ⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: fàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄤˋ
    • Wade-Giles: fang⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fanq
    • IPA ^(key): /fɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fong¹
    • Yale: fōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fong¹
    • IPA ^(key): /fɔːŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fông
    • Hakka Romanization System: fong´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fong¹
    • IPA: /foŋ²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hong
    • Tâi-lô: hong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hofng
    • IPA (Taipei): /hɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔŋ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /pʉɐŋ/▼

Rime
Character	匚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	陽 (106)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	府良切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʉɐŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/pʷiɐŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/piuɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puaŋ/
Li Rong	/piuaŋ/
Wang Li	/pĭwaŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/piwaŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fāng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*paŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*paŋ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	匚
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fāng
Middle Chinese	‹ pjang ›
Old Chinese	/*paŋ/
English	container, box (Shuōwén)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	匚
Reading #	1/1
No.	2984
Phonetic component	匚
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	方
Old Chinese	/*paŋ/

Definitions

匚

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References

• VoiceDic (汉语方言发音字典)
• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)

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Japanese

Kanji

匚

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: ほう (hō)
• Kun: はこ (hako)

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Korean

Hanja

匚 • ‎(bang) (hangeul 방, revised bang, McCune-Reischauer pang, Yale pang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

匚

Readings

• phương, hệ

References

• Nôm Foundation