The 寺 family
寺 · sì · ㄙˋ — Buddhist temple
Know 寺 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 時、持、詩、侍. 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.
- 時shí · ㄕˊ部首 日 · suntime; hour; when63%
- 持chí · ㄔˊ部首 扌 提手旁 · handto hold; to grasp63%
- 詩shī · ㄕ部首 言 · wordspoem; poetry63%
- 侍shì · ㄕˋ部首 亻 單人旁 · personto serve; to attend upon63%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 寺 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 寺 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 63%.
Words this family builds
- 時候
- 時間
- 當時
- 小時
- 保持
- 支持
- 堅持
- 同時
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