星圖

Phonetic families

Most of the 3,000 characters in the map carry a sound component — a phonetic. Learn 青 once and the readings of 清、晴、請、精 follow. These are the 110 families with 4 or more members; each page shows the family as a constellation, its readings and meanings, and the words it builds. There is also a 部首 radical index for browsing by meaning component, and every family ranked by how reliably it predicts pronunciation.