法 — Chinese character

法

fǎ

law, rule, statute; method, way; French

Pinyin: fǎ
Radical: 85 ⽔ (Water)
Strokes: 8
Components: 氵去
Formation: ideographic — The course 去 followed by a stream 氵
Japanese: 法 as a kanji

Common words with 法

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
无法 (無法)	wú fǎ	unable to; incapable of
法律	fǎ lǜ	law; 条 (tiáo), 套 (tào), 个 (gè)
方法	fāng fǎ	method; way; technique; procedure
办法 (辦法)	bàn fǎ	way of handling sth; means; measure; (practical) solution to a problem; 条 (tiáo)
宪法 (憲法)	xiàn fǎ	constitution (of a country); measure word: 部 (bù)
合法	hé fǎ	lawful; legitimate
法院	fǎ yuàn	court of law; court
法规 (法規)	fǎ guī	legislation; statute
非法	fēi fǎ	illegal
想法	xiǎng fǎ	way of thinking; opinion; notion; to think of a way (to do sth)
立法	lì fǎ	to enact laws; to legislate
说法 (說法)	shuō fǎ	to expound Buddhist teachings

English words written with 法

法 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 5 · Analects 2 · Art of War 21 · Mencius 11 · Zhuangzi 34 · Great Learning 2 · Doctrine of the Mean 1

Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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