开方

開方

kāifāng

verb #78,749

Meanings

1 to write out a prescription
2 (math) to extract a root

Characters

open; write out

formula; prescription

Examples

医生给我开方，让我去抓药。

Yīshēng gěi wǒ kāifāng, ràng wǒ qù zhuā yào.

The doctor wrote me a prescription and told me to go pick up the herbs.

九开方等于三。

Jiǔ kāifāng děngyú sān.

The square root of nine is three.

Tips

usage

Two unrelated senses: the everyday medical one (especially for TCM herbal prescriptions written on 药方) and the mathematical one — 开平方 (square root), 开立方 (cube root).

Stroke Order

开 kāi

方 fāng