法

法 (radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水土戈 (EGI), four-corner 3413₁, composition ⿰氵去)

• 𠵽, 𭡚, 𦝌, 琺, 鍅, 𪶏, 𭱇, 𬈅, 𧇦, 𭓼, 𦲾, 𪾁, 𪴹, 䦢, 𬰂, 𢌇, 𦝎, 𤀢, 𪫚, 𠎢

• 灋 (Variant traditional form of 法)

• KangXi: page 616, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17290
• Dae Jaweon: page 1010, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1579, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6CD5

Historical forms of the character 法
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Simplified from earlier 灋, which was originally used to represent 廢 (OC *pads, “to cast aside; to abrogate”).

Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Tibetan བབས (babs, “shape, form, appearance”), དབྱིབས (dbyibs, “shape, form, figure”). Possibly cognate with 凡 (OC *bom, “all, general, every; pattern, general rule”); see there for more.

法

1. law; rule; regulation; statute
2. norm; standard; model; example
3. method; way; solution
4. (Buddhism) dharma; principle of the universe; teachings of Buddha

   末法時期 / 末法时期  ―  mò fǎ shíqī  ―  Dharma-ending age

5. Buddhist; relating to Buddhism
6. ^† to imitate; to emulate
7. 40th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "law" (𝌭)
8. Short for 法國 (“France; French”).
9. A surname​.

• Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian (《现代汉语规范词典》) proscribes the use of the pronunciations fā, fá and fà.

Others:

• → Proto-Tai
  • Lao: ແບບ (bǣp, “form; model, standard, example; method; style, manner; brand, type”)
  • Thai: แบบ (bɛ̀ɛp, “kind; design, pattern; style; type; model”)
  • → Khmer: បែប (baep, “kind, sort, model, type; style, form, shape; aspect; method, way, situation, condition”)
  • → Vietnamese: phép (“rule, custom, usage, method; permission, authorisation; magical power”)

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. method
2. law, rule
3. principle
4. model
5. system

• Go-on: ほう (hō, Jōyō)^{←ほふ (fofu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ほう (hō, Jōyō)^{←はふ (fafu, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: はっ (ha', Jōyō, uncommon)^{←はふ (fafu, historical)}; ほっ (ho', Jōyō, uncommon)^{←ほふ (fofu, historical)}
• Kun: おきて (okite, 法); のっとる (nottoru, 法る); のり (nori, 法)
• Nanori: かず (kazu); つね (tsune); はかる (hakaru)

From Middle Chinese 法 (MC pɨɐp̚). Originally, the kan'on was はふ (fafu), and the goon was ほふ (fofu), although both became ほう (hō) in modern Japanese. It is suggested that the kan'on was used in the general senses, while the goon was used in Buddhist contexts.

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) ほー [hòó] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [ho̞ː]

法 (hiragana ほう, rōmaji hō, historical hiragana はふ)

1. principle
2. law
3. code of law
4. method
5. etiquette
6. (Buddhism) dharma
7. (grammar) mood
8. (mathematics) divisor

• 方法 (ほうほう) (hōhō, “way, method, manner”)

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) のり​ [nòríꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [no̞ɾʲi]

• 規, 則, 矩

法 (hiragana のり, rōmaji nori)

1. law
2. measure, size

   内 (うち)法 (のり)

   uchi nori

   inner size

• (law): 法規 (ほうき) (hōki), 法律 (ほうりつ) (hōritsu)
• (measure): 寸法 (すんぽう) (sunpō)

From French franc.[1][3]

• (Irregular reading)
  • (Tokyo) フ​ラン [fúꜜràǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟ᵝɾã̠ɴ]

法 (katakana フラン, rōmaji furan)

1. Alternative spelling of フラン

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

法 • (beop) (hangeul 법, revised beop, McCune–Reischauer pŏp, Yale pep)

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法 (pháp, phấp, phép, phăm, phắp)

1. law
2. method
3. France, French