方 fāng 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 syn 管 guǎn to take care (of) / to control / to manage / to be in charge of / to look after / to run / to care about / tube / pipe / woodwind / classifier for tube-shaped objects / particle similar to 把[ba3] in 管...叫 constructions / writing brush / (coll.) to / towards syn 格 gé square / frame / rule / (legal) case / style / character / standard / pattern / (grammar) case / (classical) to obstruct / to hinder / (classical) to arrive / to come / (classical) to investigate / to study exhaustively syn 广场 廣場 guǎng chǎng public square / plaza 规矩 規矩 guī ju lit. compass and set square / fig. established standard / rule / customs / practices / fig. upright and honest / well-behaved syn 平方 píng fāng square (as in square foot, square mile, square root) 卸扣 xiè kòu shackle (U-shaped link) 角 jiǎo angle / corner / horn / horn-shaped / unit of money equal to 0.1 yuan, or 10 cents (a dime) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 锅 鍋 guō pot / pan / wok / cauldron / pot-shaped thing / CL:口[kou3],隻|只[zhi1] syn 平方米 píng fāng mǐ square meter 平米 píng mǐ square meter / short for 平方米 配方 pèi fāng prescription / cooking recipe / formulation / completing the square (to solve quadratic equation, math.) syn 平方公里 píng fāng gōng lǐ square kilometer 方正 fāng zhèng clear and square / neat / square (person) syn 成型 chéng xíng to become shaped / to become formed 对阵 對陣 duì zhèn poised for battle / to square up for a fight syn 十字 shí zì cross road / cross-shaped / crucifix / the character ten 方块 方塊 fāng kuài cube / block / square / rectangle / diamond ♦ (in card games) syn 人形 rén xíng human form / human-shaped / humanoid 琵琶 pí pa pipa, Chinese lute, with 4 strings, a large pear-shaped body and a fretted fingerboard 杆菌 桿菌 gǎn jūn bacillus (any rod-shaped bacteria) 方丈 fāng zhang square zhang (i.e. unit of area 10 feet square) / monastic room 10 feet square / Buddhist or Daoist abbot / abbot's chamber syn 环形 環形 huán xíng ring-shaped / (math.) annulus 牛头 牛頭 niú tóu ox head / ox-head shaped wine vessel 匀称 勻稱 yún chèn well proportioned / well shaped syn 原点 原點 yuán diǎn starting point / square one / (coordinate geometry) origin 铜钱 銅錢 tóng qián copper coin (round with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China) syn 正方形 zhèng fāng xíng square 方寸 fāng cùn square cun (Chinese unit of area: 1 cun × 1 cun, or 3⅓ cm × 3⅓ cm) / heart / mind syn 方阵 方陣 fāng zhèn square-shaped formation (military) / phalanx / (math.) matrix 橄榄球 橄欖球 gǎn lǎn qiú football played with oval-shaped ball (rugby, American football, Australian rules etc) 球形 qiú xíng spherical / ball-shaped 人民广场 人民廣場 rén mín guǎng chǎng People's Square, Shanghai 时代广场 時代廣場 shí dài guǎng chǎng Times Square 方格 fāng gé checked pattern / square box character (in Chinese text) indicating an illegible character 见方 見方 jiàn fāng (measurement) (after a length) square (as in "10 feet square") syn 红心 紅心 hóng xīn heart ♥ (in card games) / red, heart-shaped symbol / bullseye syn 天安门广场 天安門廣場 tiān ān mén guǎng chǎng Tiananmen Square 梯形 tī xíng trapezoid / ladder-shaped / terraced 飞镖 飛鏢 fēi biāo darts (game) / dart (weapon shaped like a spearhead) 状物 狀物 zhuàng wù ...-shaped thing / to portray sth 堂堂正正 táng táng zhèng zhèng displaying strength and discipline / impressive / upright and frank / square syn 奇形怪状 奇形怪狀 qí xíng guài zhuàng fantastic oddities of every description (idiom) / grotesquely shaped syn 拍子 pāi zi beat (music) / paddle-shaped object (flyswatter etc) / racket (sports) syn 环状 環狀 huán zhuàng annular / toroidal / loop-shaped / ring-like 结清 結淸 jié qīng to settle (an account) / to square up 锅子 鍋子 guō zi pot / pan / wok / cauldron / pot-shaped thing / hotpot syn 筒子 tǒng zi tube-shaped object / tube / bobbin / (Internet slang) homonym for 同志[tong2 zhi4] syn 冠状 冠狀 guān zhuàng coronary (i.e. relating to the coronary arteries or veins) / crown-shaped 丁字 dīng zì T-shaped 槽钢 槽鋼 cáo gāng steel groove / V-shaped steel bar 卵形 luǎn xíng oval / egg-shaped (leaves in botany) 红场 紅場 hóng chǎng Red Square (in Moscow) 另起炉灶 另起爐灶 lìng qǐ lú zào lit. to set up a separate kitchen (idiom) / to start from scratch / back to square one / to start of on a new path syn 蛇形 shé xíng S-shaped / serpentine / coiled like a snake 八仙桌 bā xiān zhuō old-fashioned square table to seat eight people syn 拨浪鼓 撥浪鼓 bō làng gǔ a drum-shaped rattle (used by peddlers or as a toy) / rattle-drum syn 针状 針狀 zhēn zhuàng needle-shaped 环形山 環形山 huán xíng shān crater / ring-shaped mountain 八字胡 八字鬍 bā zì hú mustache shaped like character 八 平方根 píng fāng gēn square root 伞形 傘形 sǎn xíng umbrella-shaped 人民英雄纪念碑 人民英雄紀念碑 rén mín yīng xióng jì niàn bēi Monument to the People's Heroes, at Tiananmen Square 莲雾 蓮霧 lián wù wax apple (a reddish pear-shaped fruit) 波状 波狀 bō zhuàng wave-shaped 方括号 方括號 fāng kuò hào square brackets [ ] 直角尺 zhí jiǎo chǐ a set square (carpenter's tool) 巴乌 巴烏 bā wū bawu, a free reed wind instrument shaped like a flute and played transversally, associated particularly with minority cultures of Yunnan 角尺 jiǎo chǐ set square (tool to measure right angles) syn 三角板 sān jiǎo bǎn set square / triangle (for drawing right angles) syn 斗 dǒu dry measure for grain equal to ten 升[sheng1] or one-tenth of a 石[dan4] / decaliter / peck / cup or dipper shaped object / old variant of 陡[dou3] syn 曲尺 qū chǐ set square (tool to measure right angles) syn 之字形 zhī zì xíng Z-shaped / zigzag 蛋 dàn egg / CL:個|个[ge4],打[da2] / oval-shaped thing syn 矩 jǔ carpenter's square / rule / regulation / pattern / to carve syn 坪 píng a plain / ping, unit of area equal to approx. 3.3058 square meters (used in Japan and Taiwan) syn 璋 zhāng jade tablet used in ceremonies, shaped like the left or right half of a "gui" 圭[gui1], also given to male infants to play with 圭 guī jade tablet, square at the base and rounded or pointed at the top, held by the nobility at ceremonies / sundial / (ancient unit of volume) a tiny amount / a smidgen / a speck syn 挝 撾 zhuā ancient weapon with a tip shaped like a hand or claw / old variant of 抓[zhua1] / to strike / to beat syn 缨 纓 yīng tassel / sth shaped like a tassel (e.g. a leaf etc) / ribbon syn 榘 jǔ variant of 矩, carpenter's square / rule / regulation / pattern / to carve 笥 sì square bamboo container for food or clothing 钿 鈿 diàn to inlay with gold, silver etc / ancient inlaid ornament shaped as a flower 枋 fāng Santalum album / square wooden pillar 轸 軫 zhěn square / strongly (as of emotion) syn 埙 塤 xūn ocarina / wind instrument consisting of an egg-shaped chamber with holes 罾 zēng large square net syn 螓 qín small cicada with a square head 稜 léng corner / square beam 镈 鎛 bó ancient musical intrument shaped as a bell / hoe / spade 循规蹈矩 循規蹈矩 xún guī dǎo jǔ to follow the compass and go with the set square (idiom) / to follow the rules inflexibly / to act according to convention syn 盂方水方 yú fāng shuǐ fāng If the basin is square, the water in it will also be square. (idiom) 规矩准绳 規矩準繩 guī ju zhǔn shéng compasses, set square, spirit level and plumbline (idiom) / fig. established standard / norms / criteria 规矩绳墨 規矩繩墨 guī ju shéng mò compasses, set square and straight line marker (idiom) / fig. established standard / norms / criteria 螺旋体 螺旋體 luó xuán tǐ Spirochaetes, phylum of extremophile bacteria / spiral-shaped bacterium, e.g. causing syphilis 丁字尺 dīng zì chǐ T-square / set square (carpenter's tool) syn 最小二乘法 zuì xiǎo èr chéng fǎ least square adjustment / least square method / least square fitting procedure / least square fit 最小二乘法平差 least square adjustment / least square method / least square fitting procedure / least square fit 