放

See also fang

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 方 + semantic 攵 (“hand, action”) – an action, release.

Han character

放 (radical 66 攴+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸人大 (YSOK), four-corner 0824₀, composition ⿰方攵)

1. put, release, free, liberate

Derived characters

• 敖

References

• KangXi: page 469, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13133
• Dae Jaweon: page 818, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1451, character 11
• Unihan data for U+653E

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Cantonese

Hanzi

放 (Yale fong3)

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Japanese

Kanji

放 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ほう (hō)
• Kun: はなす (hanasu), はなつ (hanatsu), ゆるす (yurusu)

Compounds

• 放射能

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

• audio

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Hanzi

放 (pinyin fǎng (fang3), fàng (fang4), Wade-Giles fang³, fang⁴)

Compounds

• 放射性

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Vietnamese

Han character

放 (phóng, phúng, phưng)