匚

See also: 匸, ㄈ, ㄷ, and コ

匚 U+531A, 匚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-531A ← 匙 [U+5319] CJK Unified Ideographs 匛 → [U+531B]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

匚 (radical 22, 匚+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 一女 (MV), four-corner 7171₀, composition ⿱一𠃊)

1. Kangxi radical #22, ⼕.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/匚

Descendants

• ㄈ

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		匚
alternative forms		𠥓 𠤬

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 匚
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (匚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
匚	*paŋ
匠	*sbaŋs

Pictogram (象形).

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fāng (fang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄤ

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

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: fāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄤ
    • Wade–Giles: fang1
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fang
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fang
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fong¹
    • Yale: fōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɔːŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fông
    • Hakka Romanization System: fong´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fong¹
    • Sinological IPA: /foŋ²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hong
    • Tâi-lô: hong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hofng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /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

1. a kind of container

Pronunciation 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 匚 – see 放 (“to release; to free; to liberate; to let out; to let go; to place something; etc.”). (This character, 匚, is a variant form of 放.)

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Japanese

Kanji

匚

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ほう (hō)
• Kan-on: ほう (hō)
• Kun: はこ (hako)

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Korean

Hanja

匚 (eum 방 (bang))

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Vietnamese

Han character

Readings

• phương, hệ

References

• Nôm Foundation