Meaning
law; method; way; Buddhist teaching; Legalist; France (abbrev.)
Chinese: 方法、法律或规则。
Hear the Four Tones
The same syllable “fa” becomes a different word in each tone. 法 is the 3rd tone. Tap any tone to hear a native voice and see its pitch shape.
Stroke Order
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Common Words
- 办法bàn fǎway of handling sth; means; measure; (practical) solution to a problem
- 方法fāng fǎmethod; way; technique; procedure
- 想法xiǎng fǎway of thinking; opinion; notion; to think of a way (to do sth)
- 看法kàn fǎway of looking at a thing; view; opinion
- 做法zuò fǎway of handling sth; method for making; work method; recipe
Example Sentence
这个办法很好。Zhè ge bàn fǎ hěn hǎo.This method is very good.
这个Zhè ge(pronoun) this办bànto do法fǎFrance很hěnvery好hǎogood。
Go deeper
Where this character comes from
The water radical 氵 (level and fair, like water) plus 去: a standard everyone is held to — ‘law, method, way’. Simplified from 灋.
A way to remember it
Fair and level as water (氵) — the law, a method.