direction; method; person

Builds 72 distinct compound words — ranked #38 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: ホウ
訓 kun: かた

A direction, and then a way of doing something — 使い方 how to use. As かた it is also a polite word for a person.

The ten most common compounds built on 方. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

72compounds built

2,122times those words occur

#47by productivity alone

#57by how often it turns up

Where 方 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 方. Each one opens its own map.

一one一方#2 地ground; land地方#45 話talk; story話し方#50 仕serve; do仕方#79

Words built on 方

方ほう862 uses

方法ほうほう219 uses

地方ちほう65 uses

仕方しかた64 uses

話し方はなしかた60 uses

夕方ゆうがた58 uses

一方いっぽう54 uses

味方みかた53 uses

方向ほうこう49 uses

考え方かんがえかた49 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.