方（かた）（person (polite)/way） Noun 例句：この方は先生です。（このかたはせんせいです。）（This person is a teacher.）、やり方がわかりません。（やりかたがわかりません。）（I don't understand the way to do it.） 用法：やり方を教えて（Teach me how to do it.）、あの方は先生です（That person is a teacher. (polite)） 易混：方 ↔ 人（方 is a more polite way to refer to a person. 人 is the neutral word for 'person'; 方 is more respectful.）、方法（ほうほう） ↔ やり方（やりかた） ↔ 仕方（しかた）（方法 is neutral/formal/やり方 is more colloquial and often about how to do something in practice/仕方 is about how to handle/deal with something and is also used in 仕方がない ('can't be helped').）、方（かた） ↔ 方（ほう）（かた: 'person' (polite) or ~方 meaning 'way/how to'/ほう: 'direction/side' and common in Sino-Japanese compounds (方向, 地方, 方法).）