The 倉 family
倉 · cāng · ㄘㄤ — barn
Know 倉 and the readings of 6 more characters follow: 槍、創、搶、艙、滄、蒼. In traditional Chinese, most characters carry a sound component — a phonetic — and learning the phonetic once lights up its whole family. This page is that family, drawn live from the map.
The characters
One sound, many meanings: the 部首 beside each character is the other half of the pair, the part that tells them apart.
- 槍qiāng · ㄑㄧㄤ部首 木 · treegun; firearm58%
- 創chuàng · ㄔㄨㄤˋ部首 刂 立刀旁 · knifeto initiate; to create; to achieve (sth for the first time)58%
- 搶qiǎng · ㄑㄧㄤˇ部首 扌 提手旁 · handto fight over; to rush58%
- 艙cāng · ㄘㄤ部首 舟 · boatcabin; the hold of a ship or airplane90%
- 滄cāng · ㄘㄤ部首 氵 三點水 · water(of water, esp. the ocean) deep blue-green; (literary) cold90%
- 蒼cāng · ㄘㄤ部首 艸 · grassdark blue; deep green90%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 倉 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 倉 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 74%.
Words this family builds
- 開槍
- 創造
- 原創
- 創作
- 倉庫
- 手槍
- 搶劫
- 創意
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