法: method; law

法 dāng

verb | preposition
: to be; to act as

Kun Reading
none applicable

法官 fa3guan1: a judge [ほうかん houkan]

法律 fa3lü4: law [ほうりつ houritsu]

法院 fa3yuan4: court of law; court [ほういん houin]

法令 fa3ling4: decree; ordinance [ほうれい hourei]

法國[国] fa3guo2: France [法国 | ふらんす furansu]

法語[语] fa3yu3: French (language) [法語 | ほうご hougo: Buddhist sermon]

語[语]法 yu3fa3: grammar [語法 | ごほう gohou: diction; grammar; syntax; usage; wording]

辦[办]法 ban4fa3: means; method; way (of doing something)

方法 fang1fa3: method; way; means [ほうほう houhou: method; process; manner; way; means; technique]

做法 zuo4fa3: way of handling something; method for making; work method; recipe; practice

看法 kan4fa3: way of looking at a thing; view; opinion

說[说]法 shuo1fa: way of speaking; wording; formulation; one’s version (of events); statement; theory; hypothesis; interpretation

Japanese expression | idiom | proverb
大法螺を吹く | おおぼらをふく oobora o fuku
: to talk through one’s hat; to toot one’s own horn

弘法にも筆の誤り | こうぼうにもふでのあやまり koubou ni mofude no ayamari
: anyone can make a mistake

弘法筆を択ばず | こうぼうふでをえらばず koubou fude o erabazu
: a good workman does not blame his tools

生兵法は大けがの基 | なまびょうほうはおおけがのもと namabyou hou wa ooke ga nomoto
: A little learning is a dangerous thing

Chinese expression | idiom
約法三章 [约法三章] yue1 fa3 san1 zhang1
: to agree on three laws; provisional agreement made by new dynastic government with the people

知法犯法 zhi1 fa3 fan4 fa3
: to know the law and break it; consciously going against the rules

無法無天 [无法无天] wu2 fa3 wu2 tian1
: regardless of the law and of natural morality; maverick; undisciplined and out of control

逍遙法外 [逍遥法外] xiao1 yao2 fa3 wai4
: unfettered and beyond the law; evading retribution; getting away with it (e.g. crimes); still at large

以言代法，以權壓法 [以言代法，以权压法] yi3 yan2 dai4 fa3 , yi3 quan2 ya1 fa3
: to substitute one’s words for the law and abuse power to crush it; completely lawless behavior. Might makes right