The 并 family
并 · bīng · ㄅㄧㄥ — short name for Taiyuan 太原
Know 并 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 瓶、餅、屏、併. 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.
- 瓶píng · ㄆㄧㄥˊ部首 瓦 · roof tilebottle; vase66%
- 餅bǐng · ㄅㄧㄥˇ部首 飠 食字旁 · to eatround flat cake; cookie79%
- 屏píng · ㄆㄧㄥˊ部首 尸 · (literary) person representing the deceased (during burial ceremonies)(standing) screen66%
- 併bìng · ㄅㄧㄥˋ部首 亻 單人旁 · personto combine; to amalgamate88%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 并 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 并 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 75%.
Words this family builds
- 瓶子
- 餡餅
- 餅乾
- 煎餅
- 屏幕
- 花瓶
- 薄餅
- 守口如瓶
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