妨

妨 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 女卜竹尸 (VYHS), four-corner 4042₇, composition ⿰女方)

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• Kangxi Dictionary: page 257, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6111
• Dae Jaweon: page 522, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1033, character 4
• Unihan data for U+59A8

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pʰaŋ, *pʰaŋs): semantic 女 + phonetic 方 (OC *paŋ, *baŋ). 方 also once bore the now-obsolete meaning of "take up" (space), which can explain the meaning of this character as being "to obstruct someone from approaching a woman".

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-p(j)aŋ (“to block, obstruct”); compare Burmese ပင်း (pang:, “to wedge, block”), as well as the following Sinitic words (STEDT):

• 坊 (OC *paŋ, *baŋ, “dike”)
• 防 (OC *baŋ, *baŋs, “to protect against”).

妨

1. to hinder; to impede; to obstruct; to disturb
2. (often in the negative) to harm; to damage

(Jōyō kanji)

1. disturb

• Go-on: ほう (hō)^{←はう (fau, historical)}
• Kan-on: ほう (hō)^{←はう (fau, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: ぼう (bō, Jōyō)^{←ばう (bau, historical)}
• Kun: さまたげる (samatageru, 妨げる, Jōyō)

妨 (eumhun 방해할 방 (banghaehal bang))

1. hanja form^? of 방 (“interfere with, impede, obstruct”)

妨: Hán Nôm readings: phòng, phương

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