The 巠 family
巠 · jīng · ㄐㄧㄥ — underground watercourse
Know 巠 and the readings of 6 more characters follow: 經、輕、痙、徑、莖、頸. 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.
- 經jīng · ㄐㄧㄥ部首 糹 絞絲旁 · fine silkto pass through; classic; scripture91%
- 輕qīng · ㄑㄧㄥ部首 車 · carlight; easy68%
- 痙jìng · ㄐㄧㄥˋ部首 疒 病字頭 · sickspasm82%
- 徑jìng · ㄐㄧㄥˋ部首 彳 雙人旁 · step with the left foot (Kangxi radical 60)footpath; path; track; (fig.) a way; a means; directly; straight82%
- 莖jīng · ㄐㄧㄥ部首 艸 · grassstalk; stem91%
- 頸jǐng · ㄐㄧㄥˇ部首 頁 · pageneck82%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 巠 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 巠 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 83%.
Words this family builds
- 已經
- 曾經
- 經過
- 經歷
- 經常
- 經驗
- 經濟
- 神經
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