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芳

fāng

Character

What 芳 means

1. fragrant

Example sentences

• 玫瑰的芬芳弥漫了整个房间.
  Méiguī de fēnfāng mímàn le zhěnggè fángjiān.
  The smell of roses filled the room.
• 于是那欢快的小男孩们四处游荡，/ 如此喜悦地穿越山丘与山谷，/ 蔷薇的芬芳穿过荆棘丛 / 将随温柔的夏风飘散：/ 每个清晨，大自然含笑赐予，/ 那贫苦卑微的农夫也得一份，/ 云雀从草丛中振翅而上，/ 将悠扬的音符送向天际。
  Then the merry little boys they will ramble, / So gleesome, o’er mountain and dale, / Where the sweets of the rose through the bramble / Will be blown by the mild summer gale: / Then a share of Nature’s smiles each morning / To the poor humble peasant will be given. / While the lark from his covert he is soaring, / His musical notes to the heaven.

Words starting with 芳

• 芳香fāng xiāngfragrant; aromatic; fragrance
• 芳容fāng róngbeautiful face (of a young lady)
• 芳心fāng xīnthe affection, or heart, of a young woman
• 芳疗fāng liáoaromatherapy (abbr. for 芳香疗法
• 芳华fāng huáyoung years; youth
• 芳龄fāng língage (of a young woman)
• 芳香环fāng xiāng huánbenzene ring (chemistry); aromatic ring
• 芳香疗法fāng xiāng liáo fǎaromatherapy
• 芳香醋fāng xiāng cùbalsamic vinegar
• 芳烃fāng tīngaromatic hydrocarbon
• 芳香烃fāng xiāng tīngaromatic hydrocarbon (i.e. involving benzene ring)
• 芳札fāng zhágood letter

Words containing 芳

• 芬芳fēn fāngperfume; fragrant
• 梅兰芳Méi Lán fāngMei Lanfang (1894-1961), famous master of Beijing opera, specialist in female roles
• 雅芳Yǎ fāngAvon (cosmetics company)
• 流芳liú fāngto leave a good reputation
• 群芳qún fāngall flowers; all beauties; all talents
• 哥罗芳gē luó fāng(loanword) chloroform; trichloromethane CHCl3
• 孙传芳Sūn Chuán fāngSun Chuanfang (1885-1935) one of the northern warlord, murdered in Tianjin in 1935
• 孤芳自赏gū fāng zì shǎnglone flower admiring itself (idiom); narcissism; self-love
• 伍廷芳Wǔ Tíng fāngWu Tingfang (1842-1922), diplomat and lawyer
• 一亲芳泽yī qīn fāng zéto get close to; to get on intimate terms with
• 流芳百世liú fāng bǎi shì(of one's name, reputation etc) to be immortalized (idiom)…
• 天涯何处无芳草tiān yá hé chù wú fāng cǎothere are plenty more fish in the sea (idiom)
• 流芳千古liú fāng qiān gǔsee 流芳百世

Characters built on 方

These share the phonetic component 方 (fāng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 房fánghouse; room; branch of an extended family
• 放fàngto put; to place; to release
• 防fángto protect; to defend; to guard against
• 访fǎng(bound form) to seek by inquiry; (bound form) to visit; to call on
• 旁pángone side; other; different
• 妨fángto hinder; (in the negative or interrogative) (no) harm; (what) harm
• 仿fǎngto imitate; to copy
• 纺fǎngto spin (cotton or hemp etc); fine woven silk fabric

Characters that look like 芳

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 责zéduty; responsibility; to reproach
• 若ruòto seem; like; as
• 苦kǔbitter; hardship; pain
• 茅máoreeds; rushes
• 贤xiánworthy or virtuous person; honorific used for a person of the same or a younger generation
• 斧fǔhatchet

Sounds the same

Read fāng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 方square; power or involution (math.); upright
• 坊lane (usually as part of a street name); memorial archway
• 枋Santalum album; square wooden pillar
• 邡used in 什邡
• 钫francium (chemistry)
• 匚"right open box" radical (Kangxi radical 22), occurring in 区, 医, 匹 etc
• 淓name of a river
• 蚄used in 虸蚄