良方

Chinese

		good; very; very much	square; quadrilateral; place square; quadrilateral; place; region; direction; side; method; way; prescription; power; upright; just
simp. and trad. (良方)		良	方
anagram		方良

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liángfāng

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄤˊ ㄈㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): loeng⁴ fong¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): liông-hong / liâng-hong

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: liángfāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄤˊ ㄈㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: liángfang
    • Wade–Giles: liang²-fang¹
    • Yale: lyáng-fāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liangfang
    • Palladius: лянфан (ljanfan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɑŋ³⁵ fɑŋ⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: liángfāngr
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄤˊ ㄈㄤㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: liángfangr
    • Wade–Giles: liang²-fang¹-ʼrh
    • Yale: lyáng-fāngr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liangfangl
    • Palladius: лянфанр (ljanfanr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɑŋ³⁵ fɑ̃ɻ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: loeng⁴ fong¹
    • Yale: lèuhng fōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loeng⁴ fong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: lêng⁴ fong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lœːŋ²¹ fɔːŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liông-hong
    • Tâi-lô: liông-hong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lionghofng
    • IPA (Taipei): /liɔŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ hɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /liɔŋ²³⁻³³ hɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /liɔŋ²⁴⁻²² hɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liɔŋ²⁴⁻²² hɔŋ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liâng-hong
    • Tâi-lô: liâng-hong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lianghofng
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /liaŋ¹³⁻²² hɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /liaŋ²³⁻³³ hɔŋ⁴⁴/

Noun

良方

1. (medicine) effective prescription
2. (figurative) effective measure; sound strategy

   德是千金良方。  ―  Dé shì qiānjīn liángfāng.  ―  Virtue is the Golden Cure.

Synonyms

• (prescription):

• 丹方 (dānfāng) (folk prescription)
• 仙方 (xiānfāng) (magical prescription)
• 偏方 (piānfāng) (folk prescription)
• 古方 (gǔfāng) (ancient prescription)
• 單方／单方 (dānfāng) (in TCM)
• 土方 (tǔfāng) (folk prescription)
• 方劑／方剂 (fāngjì) (in TCM)
• 方子 (fāngzi) (in TCM)
• 湯頭／汤头 (tāngtóu) (prescription for a medical decoction)
• 藥單／药单 (yàodān)
• 藥方／药方 (yàofāng)
• 處方／处方 (chǔfāng)
• 處方箋／处方笺 (chǔfāngjiān) (literary)
• 複方／复方 (fùfāng) (in TCM)
• 配方 (pèifāng)
• 醫方／医方 (yīfāng)
• 驗方／验方 (yànfāng) (proved recipe in TCM)

 

Derived terms

• 賢良方正／贤良方正