The 古 family
古 · gǔ · ㄍㄨˇ — ancient
Know 古 and the readings of 10 more characters follow: 故、苦、估、胡、姑、固、辜、沽、咕、枯. 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.
- 故gù · ㄍㄨˋ部首 攴 · strikehappening; instance81%
- 苦kǔ · ㄎㄨˇ部首 艸 · grassbitter; hardship68%
- 估gū · ㄍㄨ部首 亻 單人旁 · personto estimate81%
- 胡hú · ㄏㄨˊ部首 肉 · meatnon-Han people, esp. from central Asia; reckless68%
- 姑gū · ㄍㄨ部首 女 · femalepaternal aunt; husband's sister81%
- 固gù · ㄍㄨˋ部首 囗 · enclosurehard; strong81%
- 辜gū · ㄍㄨ部首 辛 · (of taste) hot or pungentcrime; sin; (literary) to abandon; to betray81%
- 沽gū · ㄍㄨ部首 氵 三點水 · waterto buy; to sell81%
- 咕gū · ㄍㄨ部首 口 · mouth(onom.) for the sound of a bird, an empty stomach etc81%
- 枯kū · ㄎㄨ部首 木 · tree(of plants) withered; (of wells, rivers etc) dried up68%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 古 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 古 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 77%.
Words this family builds
- 故事
- 痛苦
- 姑娘
- 辛苦
- 胡說
- 無辜
- 估計
- 故意
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