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north / the northern part a country / China north of the Yellow River
HSK 2
south; southern direction / (in China) southern regions, often referring to areas south of the Yangtze River
HSK 2
analogy / instance / for instance
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *方* | 方* | *方
square / power or involution (math.) / upright / honest / fair and square / direction / side / party (to a contract, dispute etc) / place / method / prescription (medicine) / just when / only or just / classifier for square things / abbr. for square or cubic meter
HSK 4
bilateral / both sides / both parties involved
HSK 3
the other person; the other side; the other party
HSK 3
government / official (approved or issued by an authority)
HSK 4
the West / the Occident / Western countries
HSK 2
square (as in square foot, square mile, square root)
HSK 4
area / place / space / room / territory / CL: 處|处, 個|个, 塊|块
HSK 1
ahead / the front
HSK 6
generous / magnanimous / stylish / in good taste / easy-mannered / natural and relaxed
HSK 4
east
HSK 2
region / regional (away from the central administration) / local
HSK 4
cube (third power, math.)
underneath / below / the underside / world of mortals / to descend to the world of mortals (of gods)
place above (it) / upper part (of it)
HSK 7-9
far away / a distant location
HSK 6
(idiom) all directions; all around
HSK 7-9
our side; we
party A (in a contract) (cf. 乙方, party B)
somewhere / someplace / where
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *方* | 方* | *方
surname Fang
prescription / cooking recipe / formulation / completing the square (to solve quadratic equation, math.)
secret recipe
HSK 7-9
party B (in a contract) (cf. 甲方, party A)
square (i.e. x times x)
to be generous in the extreme (idiom)
a party (in a contract or legal case) / one side / area / region
(business) partner
folk remedy / home remedy
HSK 7-9
(math.) to exponentiate; to raise (a number) to a power / exponentiation; power
police
confident / calm / natural / poised
enemy
(of one's conduct, speech etc) natural and unrestrained
east and west / east to west
all parties (in a dispute etc) / all sides / all directions
prescription
HSK 7-9
seller (in contracts)
the Chinese side (in an international venture)
third party
parties to a contract (law)
where?
(geopolitics) the Global South
labor (as opposed to capital or management) / the workers
Rubik's cube / magic cube
unilateral / one-sided / home remedy / folk prescription(same as 丹方) / single-drug prescription (same as 奇方, one of the seven kinds of prescriptions of Chinese medicine 七方) / metaphorically. a good solution
to aspire to travel far and make one's mark (idiom)
cube (math.) / abbr. for 立方體|立方体 / abbr. for 立方米
HSK 7-9
to cave in; to collapse; to have a landslide
good medicine / effective prescription / fig. good plan / effective strategy
four-way / four-sided / in all directions / everywhere
the owners of a private enterprise / management / capital (as opposed to labor)
our side / one's own (side etc)
the five regions: the east, south, west, north and center / all parts / China and the lands beyond its frontiers
both sides (in contract) / the two opposing sides (in a dispute)
the rear / far behind the front line
(medicine) to write out a prescription / (math.) to extract a root from a given quantity
excavated soil and rock / construction spoil
(idiom) to be the richest person (or family) in a region; to possess great wealth in one's locality
the school (as a party in a contract, dispute etc) / the school authorities
lit. outside-flexible, inside-firm (idiom) / fig. velvet glove
to exhaust every means to achieve sth (idiom)
borrower / leaser / the hiring side of a contract
right-hand side
expert / scholar / mother earth / a type of green tea
folk remedy
the bride's side (of a wedding) / of the bride's party
upright / honest / proper / correct
(law) the defense
semiofficial
in many ways / from all sides
(Chinese medicine) the seven kinds of prescriptions 大方, 小方, 緩方|缓方, 急方, 奇方, 偶方 and 重方 or 複方|复方
to make a fool of oneself / to make oneself a laughing stock
to collapse / landslide
military
borrower / debit side (of a balance sheet)
credit side (of a balance sheet), as opposed to 收方
the eight points of the compass / all directions
hexagonal
policyholder (insurance)
(raised to the) nth power
to disseminate in every direction (idiom)
chi-square (math.)
unable to discipline a child / incapable of dealing with (unruly child)
ship (commerce)
the Kinki region of Japan, aka the Kansai region, with cities including Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe
(law) the prosecution
the Japanese side or party (in negotiations etc)
Water Cube, nickname of Beijing National Aquatics Center 北京國家游泳中心|北京国家游泳中心, swimming venue of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
square / four-square
lit. the eyes watch six roads and the ears listen in all directions / to be observant and alert (idiom)
(of relatives or friends) to live far apart from each other
northeast / northeastern
compound prescription (involving several medicines)
distant places / distant lands
Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold, early Tang compendium of herbal medicine by Sun Simiao 孫思邈|孙思邈

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