星圖

The family

· sào · ㄙㄠˋ chirping of birds

Know and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 操、澡、躁、噪. 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.

喿 sào · chirping of birds操 cāo · sound from 喿 · 69%澡 zǎo · sound from 喿 · 82%躁 zào · sound from 喿 · 91%噪 zào · sound from 喿 · 91%

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.

The percentage is our computed confidence that really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 83%.

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