U+65B9 "方" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
方
U+65B9 "方" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a fundamental Chinese character that primarily means "square" or "direction," but also carries broader meanings such as "method," "way," or "honesty" depending on context. As a common logograph in East Asian writing systems, it is used in both standalone words and as a component in compounds, like "方向" (direction) or "方法" (method). In traditional Chinese culture, the character is often associated with the concept of moral uprightness or geographical orientation, and its square shape itself symbolizes order and stability. It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block in the Unicode standard, ensuring consistent representation across digital text systems for these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+65B9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 方 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 方 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x96 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x65B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000065B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u65b9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A4E8 |
| kCCCII | 214267 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4549 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4549 |
| kCangjie | YHS |
| kCantonese | fong1 |
| kCihaiT | 619.401 |
| kCowles | 779 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0842.050 |
| kDefinition | a square, rectangle; a region; local |
| kEACC | 214267 |
| kFanqie | 符方 府良 |
| kFenn | 261A |
| kFennIndex | 130.07 131.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0022.7 |
| kGB0 | 2329 |
| kGB1 | 2329 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0740a |
| kHangul | 방:0E |
| kHanYu | 32172.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | fāng(2781) fang(733) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32172.010:fāng,fáng,fǎng,páng,wǎng,fēng |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⽅[U+2F45]:32172.010 |
| kHKGlyph | 1744 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0842.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32172.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0481.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-373D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A4E8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4A7D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DDB8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5B30 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4549 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-583D |
| kJapanese | ホウ ボウ モウ かた あたる くらべる ならべる まさに |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:163 |
| kJapaneseKun | KATA NARABERU KURABERU |
| kJapaneseOn | HOU |
| kJis0 | 4293 |
| kKangXi | 0481.030 |
| kKarlgren | 25 |
| kKorean | PANG |
| kLau | 712 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2455 |
| kMandarin | fāng |
| kMatthews | 1802 |
| kMeyerWempe | 524 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ013099 |
| kMorohashi | 13620 |
| kNelson | 2082 |
| kPhonetic | 373 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3661+70.4.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 70.0 |
| kSBGY | 173.10 174.43 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 284.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | fāng粵fong1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2455 |
| kTang | *biɑng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 092.130:fāng |
| kTotalStrokes | 4 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | phương |
| kXerox | 241:154 |
| kXHC1983 | 0305.070:fāng |