方向 fāngxiàng▶ dirección

Stroke order

方向 is written in 10 strokes across 2 characters.

• 方 — 4 strokes
• 向 — 6 strokes

Example sentences

• 你走错方向了。Nǐ zǒu cuò fāngxiàng le.You are going the wrong way.
• 太阳从东边的方向出来。Tàiyáng cóng dōngbian de fāngxiàng chūlái.The sun comes up from the east.

Related words

• 方法Método
• 方面Aspecto
• 向hacia
• 方cuadrado
• 北方norte
• 双方ambos lados

方向 is pronounced fāngxiàng and means “dirección”. You will meet it in HSK 4, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 方向 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.