The 扁 family
扁 · biǎn · piān small · ㄅㄧㄢˇ — flat
Know 扁 and the readings of 7 more characters follow: 騙、遍、編、偏、猵、篇、蝙. 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.
- 騙piàn · ㄆㄧㄢˋ部首 馬 · horseto cheat; to swindle68%
- 遍biàn · ㄅㄧㄢˋ部首 辶 走之旁 · walkeverywhere; all over81%
- 編biān · ㄅㄧㄢ部首 糹 絞絲旁 · fine silkto weave; to plait81%
- 偏piān · ㄆㄧㄢ部首 亻 單人旁 · personto lean; to slant68%
- 猵biān · ㄅㄧㄢ部首 犭 犬部旁 · (literary) doga kind of otter81%
- 篇piān · ㄆㄧㄢ部首 竹 · bamboosheet; piece of writing68%
- 蝙biān · ㄅㄧㄢ部首 虫 · insects, wormsbat81%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 扁 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 扁 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 75%.
Words this family builds
- 一遍
- 騙子
- 欺騙
- 蝙蝠
- 編輯
- 騙人
- 改編
- 編劇
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