HSK 3 · Verbs

放 fàng “put” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 放 means

  1. put
  2. to place
  3. to release
  4. to free
  5. to let go
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to let out

How to say 放

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale放fàng4th tone, falling

放 in a sentence

  1. 他把铅笔放桌子上了。

    Tā bǎ qiānbǐ fàng zhuōzi shàng le.

    He put the pencil on the desk.

    Sentence #344838 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我可以把它放在这儿吗？

    Wǒ kěyǐ bǎ tā fàng zài zhèr ma?

    Can I put it here?

    Sentence #1438615 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 把你的自行车放好。

    Bǎ nǐ de zìxíngchē fàng hǎo.

    Put your bicycle away properly.

    Sentence #332686 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 放 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 放 (fàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
放fàngto put
  • 方square · fāngSound part
  • 攵tap form of 攴 · pūMeaning part

攵 hints at the meaning (tap); 方 (fāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with fàng.

How to write 放

放 8 strokes

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放 (fàng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 放 (fàng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 放

Words with 放

放心fàngxīn · relax放假fàngjià · to have a holiday放学fàngxué · to finish school (for the day)放松fàngsōng · to relax放弃fàngqì · to renounce放暑假fàngshǔjià · to be on summer holidays开放kāifàng · to open (to the public)播放bōfàng · to broadcast放大fàngdà · to enlarge解放jiěfàng · to liberate

More words: Common Verbs

打算dǎsuàn · to plan带dài · band发fā · send out发现fāxiàn · discover关guān · to close过guo · particle for past experience (have done)过去guòqù · in the past花huā · flower

FAQs

放 (fàng) means “put” or “to place”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it fàng: fàng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 放 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 放 from the suggestions. Typing fang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
放 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.