何方

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Chinese

 
carry; what; how
carry; what; how; why; which
 
square; quadrilateral; place
square; quadrilateral; place; region; direction; side; method; way; prescription; power; upright; just
simp. and trad.
(何方) 		何 方

Pronunciation

Noun

何方

  1. (literary) where

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 哪裡 (“where”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 何, 何處, 何許, 何所, 何方, 安
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 哪裡, 何處, 什麼地方
Mandarin Beijing 哪兒, 哪兒合兒 colloquial, 哪合兒 colloquial
Taiwan 哪裡, 哪
Tianjin 哪兒, 哪兒合兒 colloquial, 哪合兒 colloquial
Ulanhot 哪兒
Tongliao 哪兒
Chifeng 哪兒
Bayanhot 哪兒
Hulunbuir (Hailar) 哪兒
Harbin 哪兒, 哪疙兒, 哪疙瘩, 哪海兒, 哪塊兒, 哪場兒
Shenyang 哪兒, 哪塊兒
Yantai (Muping) 哪兒, 哪裡, 哪場兒
Jinan 哪, 哪裡
Luoyang 哪兒
Wanrong 哪達, 哪那
Zhengzhou 哪兒
Xi'an 哪搭兒, 哪搭
Yinchuan 哪點, 哪裡
Lanzhou 哪達, 哪達裡, 哪達兒
Xining 哪裡
Ürümqi 哪達
Wuhan 哪裡, 啥裡, 哪歇, 哪塊, 哪塊歇, 啥塊, 啥塊些
Huanggang 哪下兒
Chengdu 哪兒, 啥子地方, 哪跟前, 哪點兒
Guiyang 哪點
Kunming 哪點兒
Guilin 哪塏
Liuzhou 哪裡, 哪, 哪塏, 哪位子, 哪塊, 哪甿
Shanglin (Sanli) 哪點
Xiangtan (Jiangnan Industries Group koine) 哪裡, 哪塊子
Xuzhou 哪來, 哪下, 哪點兒
Yangzhou 哪塊, 哪
Nanjing 哪塊, 哪裡, 哪兒
Hefei 哪格子, 哪蒿子, 哪塊子, 哪塊
Nantong 哪對過, 哪腳下
Changle (Qinjiang) 哪點
Malaysia 哪裡
Singapore 哪裡
Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan) 哪塌, 哪塌兒, 哪呢
Masanchin (Shaanxi Dungan) 哪塌, 哪呢
Cantonese Guangzhou 邊度, 邊處, 邊
Hong Kong 邊度, 邊處, 邊
Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou) 選頭
Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou) 選處
Hong Kong (Ting Kok) 哪頭
Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau) 哪埞
Macau 邊度
Guangzhou (Panyu) 邊度
Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu) 哪度
Guangzhou (Conghua) 哪處
Guangzhou (Zengcheng) 星處
Foshan 邊度
Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai) 邊度
Foshan (Shunde) 邊度
Foshan (Sanshui) 邊度
Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming) 邊度
Zhongshan (Shiqi) 邊呢
Zhuhai (Qianshan) 邊處
Zhuhai (Doumen, Shangheng Tanka) 邊
Zhuhai (Doumen) 哪
Jiangmen (Baisha) 邊子
Jiangmen (Xinhui) 邊子
Taishan 哪埞, 哪
Kaiping (Chikan) 哪
Enping (Niujiang) 哪
Heshan (Yayao) 唔址
Dongguan 邊處, 鼠處
Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an) 邊度
Shenzhen (Dapeng) 哪廳
Shaoguan 邊度
Yunfu 邊埞
Yangjiang 邊, 邊處, 邊處塗
Xinyi 庶
Nanning 邊笪埞, 邊笪, 邊啲
Wuzhou 邊啲, 邊笪, 邊笪埞方
Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) 邊度
Singapore (Guangfu) 邊度, 邊, 邊處
Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu) 邊度
Gan Nanchang 哪裡
Lichuan 哪咑
Pingxiang 哪裡
Hakka Meixian 哪仔, 哪滴
Xingning 哪裡
Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua) 哪呢
Huidong (Daling) 哪等
Dongguan (Qingxi) 哪定
Shenzhen (Shatoujiao) 哪定
Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui) 哪聽
Shaoguan (Qujiang) 哪子
Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang) 哪望
Conghua (Lütian) 哪定
Changting 哪塊, 哪塊哩, 哪裡, 哪裡哩, 哪角
Wuping (Pingyu) 哪子
Liancheng 哪裡, 哪角
Ninghua 何個, 台角
Ruijin 哪, 哪營子
Shicheng 哪裡
Shangyou (Shexi) 哪當
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 哪位, 哪仔
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 哪仔, 哪, 哪跡仔
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 哪位, 哪仔
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 哪位, 哪
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 哪位, 哪仔
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 哪位
Hong Kong 哪裡, 哪埞
Sabah (Longchuan) 哪埞
Senai (Huiyang) 哪位
Kuching (Hepo) 哪圍
Singkawang 阿位
Huizhou Jixi 哪塊, 哪個許塊
Shexian 哪個落地
Tunxi 哪裡
Xiuning 哪裡
Yixian 哪個背兒
Wuyuan 何落
Shitai (Xianyu) 哪裡
Jin Taiyuan 哪裡, 哪兒家
Pingyao 哪兒, 哪底下
Xinzhou 哪兒
Taibus (Baochang) 哪兒
Linhe 哪兒
Jining 哪兒
Hohhot 哪兒
Baotou 哪兒
Dongsheng 哪兒
Haibowan 哪兒
Northern Min Jian'ou 呢底
Jian'ou (Dikou) 呢底
Songxi 呢底
Zhenghe 呢搭底
Zhenghe (Zhenqian) 哪底, 哪
Jianyang 哪角底, 哪角
Wuyishan 哪地
Pucheng (Shibei) 呢底
Eastern Min Fuzhou 底所, 底塊 dated or rural
Changle 底所
Fuqing 佗落, 途位
Pingtan 佗落
Yongtai 底所
Gutian 底塊
Fu'an 底塊
Ningde 底塊
Shouning 底位穴, 底位
Zhouning 底塊
Matsu 底所
Singapore (Fuqing) 佗落
Southern Min Xiamen 佗落, 佗, 佗一位, 佗位, 佗一帶, 佗帶
Xiamen (Tong'an) 佗落
Quanzhou 佗落, 佗, 佗一位, 底帶
Jinjiang 佗落, 佗一位, 底落
Nan'an 佗落
Shishi 佗落
Hui'an 佗搭, 佗, 佗落
Anxi 佗落
Yongchun 佗落, 寡
Dehua 佗落仔
Zhangzhou 佗落仔, 佗落, 佗位仔, 佗位, 佗, 佗一位
Zhangzhou (Longhai) 佗落仔
Zhangzhou (Changtai) 佗落仔, 佗落
Hua'an 佗仔, 佗位仔
Nanjing 佗落仔
Pinghe 佗落, 佗一位, 佗位, 底位
Zhangpu 佗位
Yunxiao 底仔
Zhao'an 底位, 底落
Dongshan 底位
Taipei 佗位
New Taipei (Sanxia) 佗位
Kaohsiung 佗位
Yilan 佗位, 佗位仔
Changhua (Lukang) 佗落
Taichung 佗位
Tainan 佗位
Hsinchu 佗位
Kinmen 佗, 佗落
Penghu (Magong) 佗位
Penang (Hokkien) 佗落, 佗落位
Singapore (Hokkien) 佗落
Manila (Hokkien) 佗落
Longyan 佗落
Zhangping 佗落, 佗位
Zhangping (Yongfu) 佗落
Datian 底窟
Pingnan (Shangdu) 哪裡
Chaozhou 底塊
Shantou 底塊
Shantou (Chenghai) 底塊
Shantou (Chaoyang) 底囝
Jieyang 底塊
Haifeng 底帶
Bangkok (Teochew) 底塊
Johor Bahru (Teochew) 底一塊
Singapore (Teochew) 底塊
Pontianak (Teochew) 底塊
Leizhou 底跡
Wenchang 帶
Haikou 乜帶, 底帶, 底幅帶, 乜地方, 底內
Qionghai 帶寺
Singapore (Hainanese) 帶
Puxian Min Putian 佗落
Xianyou 底跡, 底落, 佗落
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 哪啲, 哪甿
Northern Pinghua Guilin (Dahe) 哪裡
Wu Shanghai 阿裡, 阿裡搭, 阿裡頭, 啥地方, 啥個地方, 啥場化 dated, 啥個場化 dated
Shanghai (Chongming) 哪墩
Suzhou 啥場化, 哪搭
Wuxi 羅裡搭葛, 羅搭
Danyang 哪裡
Hangzhou 哪裡
Ningbo 阿裡, 阿𡍲, 焉𡍲, 啥地方, 啥塢探, 啥塢宕
Wenzhou 狃宕, 狃柢, 狃, 若宕, 若柢
Jinhua 哪裡, 哪汏
Xiang Changsha 哪裡, 何至, 哪當
Xiangtan 哪當
Loudi 哪裡
Shuangfeng 哪裡
Quanzhou 哪裡

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
何 方
ど
Grade: 2 		ちら
Grade: 2
irregular

The kanji are jukujikun (熟字訓); borrowed from Chinese 何 + 方.

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “From where comes the "chira" suffix in 何方(どちら) (dochira), 此方(こちら) (kochira), and 彼方(あちら) (achira); & the "nata" suffix in 何方(どなた) (donata), 此方(こなた) (konata), and 彼方(かなた) (kanata)?

I (second person) would like to point out that it seems that the 「ど」seems to be a result of a sound shift, and comparison with the other pronouns, like the other interrogatives, and also that the word is a jukujikan, and that 「ちら」is not a suffix: rather, it would seem that the word formed from “izu”(?) (interrogative) + “chi” (directional) + “ra” (about, around), and thereafter the jukujikan was assigned to fit the word, with the meaning of “what direction”, instead of “about which direction?”.”

Pronunciation

Pronoun

何(ど)方(ちら) • (dochira) 

  1. which way?
  2. which one? (of two alternatives)
Usage notes

The hiragana spelling (どちら) is preferred to the kanji spelling (何方), which is rarely used.

See also
Japanese demonstratives
ko-
“this”
(close to speaker) 		so-
“that”
(close to listener) 		a-
“that over there”
(far from both) 		do-
“which”
(indeterminate, question)
Object これ (kore) それ (sore) あれ (are) どれ (dore)
これら (korera) それら (sorera) あれら (arera) —
Determiner この (kono) その (sono) あの (ano) どの (dono)
これらの (korera no) それらの (sorera no) あれらの (arera no) —
Kind こんな (konna) そんな (sonna) あんな (anna) どんな (donna)
こういう (kō iu) そういう (sō iu) ああいう (ā iu) どういう (dō iu)
Place ここ (koko) そこ (soko) あそこ (asoko)* どこ (doko)
こっから (kokkara) そっから (sokkara) — どっから (dokkara)
Direction / Human こちら (kochira) そちら (sochira) あちら (achira) どちら (dochira)
こなた (konata) そなた (sonata) あなた (anata) どなた (donata)
Direction こっち (kotchi) そっち (sotchi) あっち (atchi) どっち (dotchi)
Human こいつ (koitsu) そいつ (soitsu) あいつ (aitsu) どいつ (doitsu)
Manner こう (kō) そう (sō) ああ (ā)** どう (dō)
Degree これくらい (kore kurai) それくらい (sore kurai) あれくらい (are kurai) どれくらい (dore kurai)
これだけ (kore dake) それだけ (sore dake) あれだけ (are dake) どれだけ (dore dake)
これほど (kore hodo) それほど (sore hodo) あれほど (are hodo) どれほど (dore hodo)
* irregular
** regular (long vowel)
The kanji 此(こ) (ko), 其(そ) (so), 彼(あ) (a), and 何(ど) (do) can be used for determiners, but they are almost always spelled in hiragana.

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
何 方
ど
Grade: 2 		なた
Grade: 2
irregular

Pronoun

何(ど)方(なた) • (donata) 

  1. (honorific) who?
    • 2007, 新時代日漢辭典／新时代日汉辞典 (Xīn Shídài Rì-hàn Cídiǎn), 1st edition, 大新書局／大新书局 (Dàxīn Shūjú), →ISBN:
      あの方(かた)は何(ど)方(なた)様(さま)ですか
      anokata wa donata-sama desu ka
      Who is that gentleman
Usage notes

The hiragana spelling (どなた) is preferred to the kanji spelling (何方).

Synonyms

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
何 方
Grade: 2 Grade: 2
irregular

/iduti/ → /izuti/. Compound of interrogative pronoun いづ (izu) and directional suffix ち (chi).

Pronoun

何方(いずち) • (izuchi) ←いづち (iduti)?

  1. indefinite interrogative directional pronoun; which direction, where
    • late 10th century, Taketori Monogatari:
      「「龍の頚の玉取りえずは、歸り來な」とのたまへば、いづちもいづちも、足の向きたらん方へいなむ。かゝるすき事をしたまふこと」と、そしりあへり。
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

See also

Classical Japanese pronouns and demonstratives
a-/wa-
“I, we”
(first person) 		na-/-ma-
“you, ye, thou”
(second person) 		k-
“this”
(close to speaker) 		s-
“that”
(close to listener) 		a-/ka-
“that over there”
(far from both) 		i-/ta-/nani-
“who, what, where, how, when”
(interrogative) 		ono-
“oneself”
(reflexive)
Person あ (a)
あれ (are)
わ (wa)
われ (ware)
まろ (maro) 		な (na)
なれ (nare)
なんぢ (nanji)
まし (mashi)
いまし (imashi)
みまし (mimashi)
きみ (kimi) 		こ (ko)
これ (kore) 		そ (so)
それ (sore) 		あ (a)
あれ (are)
か (ka)
かれ (kare) 		た (ta)
たれ (tare)
なにがし (nanigashi) 		おの (ono)
おのれ (onore)
Thing こ (ko)
これ (kore) 		そ (so)
それ (sore) 		あ (a)
あれ (are)
か (ka)
かれ (kare) 		いづれ (izure)
なに (nani)
Location ここ (koko) そこ (soko) あしこ (ashiko)
かしこ (kashiko) 		いづく (izuku)
いづこ (izuko)
いどこ (idoko)
どこ (doko)
Direction こち (kochi)
こなた (konata) 		そち (sochi)
そなた (sonata) 		あち (achi)
あなた (anata)
かなた (kanata) 		いづち (izuchi)
いづら (izura)
いづかた (izukata)
Manner か (ka)
かく (kaku)
かくて (kakute)
かう (kō) 		さ (sa)
さて (sate)
しか (shika) 		いか (ika)
Time いつ (itsu)

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
何 方
いず
Grade: 2 		かた
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Pronoun

何(いず)方(かた) • (izukata) ←いづかた (idukata)?

  1. which direction
  2. who

See also

Classical Japanese pronouns and demonstratives
a-/wa-
“I, we”
(first person) 		na-/-ma-
“you, ye, thou”
(second person) 		k-
“this”
(close to speaker) 		s-
“that”
(close to listener) 		a-/ka-
“that over there”
(far from both) 		i-/ta-/nani-
“who, what, where, how, when”
(interrogative) 		ono-
“oneself”
(reflexive)
Person あ (a)
あれ (are)
わ (wa)
われ (ware)
まろ (maro) 		な (na)
なれ (nare)
なんぢ (nanji)
まし (mashi)
いまし (imashi)
みまし (mimashi)
きみ (kimi) 		こ (ko)
これ (kore) 		そ (so)
それ (sore) 		あ (a)
あれ (are)
か (ka)
かれ (kare) 		た (ta)
たれ (tare)
なにがし (nanigashi) 		おの (ono)
おのれ (onore)
Thing こ (ko)
これ (kore) 		そ (so)
それ (sore) 		あ (a)
あれ (are)
か (ka)
かれ (kare) 		いづれ (izure)
なに (nani)
Location ここ (koko) そこ (soko) あしこ (ashiko)
かしこ (kashiko) 		いづく (izuku)
いづこ (izuko)
いどこ (idoko)
どこ (doko)
Direction こち (kochi)
こなた (konata) 		そち (sochi)
そなた (sonata) 		あち (achi)
あなた (anata)
かなた (kanata) 		いづち (izuchi)
いづら (izura)
いづかた (izukata)
Manner か (ka)
かく (kaku)
かくて (kakute)
かう (kō) 		さ (sa)
さて (sate)
しか (shika) 		いか (ika)
Time いつ (itsu)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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