方丈

Chinese

		square; quadrilateral; place square; quadrilateral; place; region; direction; side; method; way; prescription; power; upright; just	zhang (unit of measurement)
simp. and trad. (方丈)		方	丈

Etymology

“narrow-minded person”

From the abbot of the Shaolin temple, a character in Stephen Chow's movie The God of Cookery (1996, portrayed by Tats Lau), who was very narrow-minded despite being a monk. See 方丈份人好小氣／方丈份人好小气 for more.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fāngzhàng

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄤ ㄓㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fong¹ zoeng⁶
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): huang¹ ziang⁶
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹faon-zan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fāngzhàng → fāngzhang (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄤ ㄓㄤˋ → ㄈㄤ ˙ㄓㄤ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fangjhång
    • Wade–Giles: fang¹-chang⁵
    • Yale: fāng-jang
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fang.janq
    • Palladius: фанчжан (fančžan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɑŋ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂɑŋ⁵¹/ → /fɑŋ⁵⁵ ɖ͡ʐ̥ɑŋ²/

Note: toneless - usually the Buddhist senses.

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fong¹ zoeng⁶
    • Yale: fōng jeuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fong¹ dzoeng⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: fong¹ zêng⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɔːŋ⁵⁵ t͡sœːŋ²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: huang¹ ziang⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: huang tsiăng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaŋ³³⁻²³ t͡siaŋ³⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹faon-zan
    • MiniDict: faon^平 zan
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹faan-zan
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /fɑ̃⁵⁵ zã²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: pjang drjangX

Rime
Character	方	丈
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	陽 (106)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	府良切	直兩切
Baxter	pjang	drjangX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pʉɐŋ/	/ɖɨɐŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/pʷiɐŋ/	/ɖiɐŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/piuɑŋ/	/ȡiɑŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puaŋ/	/ɖɨaŋX/
Li Rong	/piuaŋ/	/ȡiaŋX/
Wang Li	/pĭwaŋ/	/ȡĭaŋX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/piwaŋ/	/ȡʱi̯aŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fāng	zhàng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fong1	zoeng6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C-paŋ  [d]raŋʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*paŋ  daŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	方	丈
Reading #	1/3	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fāng	zhàng
Middle Chinese	‹ pjang ›	‹ drjangX ›
Old Chinese	/*C-paŋ/	/*[d]raŋʔ/
English	square	ten feet
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	方	丈
Reading #	1/2	1/1
No.	3023	16836
Phonetic component	方	丈
Rime group	陽	陽
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	方	丈
Old Chinese	/*paŋ/	/*daŋʔ/
Notes	甲金文象槳即榜初文， 下初爲單筆，猶旂左初亦作單杆

Noun

方丈

1. (literary) square with side length of 1 zhang
2. (literary) a square-zhang table full of food; plentiful food
3. (Buddhism) abbot's room or quarter, i.e. a small square-zhang room, as Vimalakīrti's room is described in the Vimalakīrti Sūtra
   1. (by extension) residence of Buddhist abbots, including the bedroom and its accessory facilities
   2. (by extension) Buddhist abbot
   3. (Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism, slang) narrow-minded person; petty person

Synonyms

• (Buddhist abbot): (Hokkien) 當家／当家, 當家師／当家师
• (narrow-minded person): (Cantonese) 小氣鬼／小气鬼 (xiǎoqìguǐ)

Derived terms

• 方丈之饌／方丈之馔
• 方丈份人好小氣／方丈份人好小气
• 方丈洲
• 方丈盈前
• 食前方丈
• 食味方丈

 

Classifier

方丈

1. Classifier for the number of areas covered by a square of side length 1 zhang.

Proper noun

方丈

1. (Chinese mythology) a mystical mountain island in the sea

   Synonym: 方壺／方壶

   See also: 蓬萊, 瀛洲

   • 齊人徐巿等上書，言海中有三神山，名曰蓬萊、方丈、瀛洲。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     齐人徐巿等上书，言海中有三神山，名曰蓬莱、方丈、瀛洲。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 《史記•秦始皇本紀》

     Qí rén Xúfú děng shàngshū, yán hǎi zhōng yǒu sān shénshān, míng yuē Pénglái, Fāngzhàng, Yíngzhōu. [Pinyin]

     Xu Fu of the state of Qi and others have written, saying that in the sea there are three mountains of immortals; they are called Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
方	丈
ほう Grade: 2	じょう Grade: S
on'yomi	goon

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ほーじょー [hòójóó] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ho̞ːʑo̞ː]

Noun

方(ほう)丈(じょう) • (hōjō) ^{←はうぢやう (faudyau)?}

1. a square 丈 (jō); an enclosed area 3.03 by 3.03 meters in size
2. such a room or building; often inhabited by Buddhist monks

Korean

Hanja in this term
方	丈

Noun

方丈 • (bangjang) (hangeul 방장)

1. hanja form^? of 방장