The 安 family
安 · ān · ㄢ — peaceful
Know 安 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 案、按、氨、胺. 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.
- 案àn · ㄢˋ部首 木 · tree(legal) case; incident83%
- 按àn · ㄢˋ部首 扌 提手旁 · handto press; to push83%
- 氨ān · ㄢ部首 气 · steam, vaporammonia93%
- 胺ān · ㄢ部首 肉 · meat(chemistry) amine93%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 安 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 安 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 88%.
Words this family builds
- 安全
- 晚安
- 案子
- 安排
- 答案
- 安娜
- 安靜
- 早安
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