方

direction, side; square

No. 63 most used

How it's built

A single shape: nothing smaller to learn.

A way to remember it

Looks like a flag pointing: a direction.

Words

• 地方

  dì fāng

  region; regional (away from the central administration); local
• 方式

  fāng shì

  way; method; manner; mode; pattern (of behavior etc); CL:种
• 方法

  fāng fǎ

  method; way; technique; procedure
• 方正

  fāng zhèng

  clear and square; neat; square (person)
• 方向

  fāng xiàng

  direction; orientation
• 对方

  duì fāng

  the other person; the other side; the other party

Sentences

• 下一站是什么地方？

  xià yí zhàn shì shén me dì fāng

  What's the next station?
• 他从什么地方来的？

  tā cóng shén me dì fāng lái de

  Where does he come from?
• 我常常在这个地方。

  wǒ cháng cháng zài zhè ge dì fāng

  I'm often here.
• 有的地方不能理解。

  yǒu de dì fāng bù néng lǐ jiě

  Some parts are hard to understand.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.