The 敝 family
敝 · bì · ㄅㄧˋ — my (polite)
Know 敝 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 斃、幣、蔽、弊. 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.
- 斃bì · ㄅㄧˋ部首 敝 · striketo die; to shoot dead92%
- 幣bì · ㄅㄧˋ部首 巾 · towelmoney; coins92%
- 蔽bì · ㄅㄧˋ部首 艸 · grassto cover; to shield92%
- 弊bì · ㄅㄧˋ部首 廾 · two handsdetriment; fraud92%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 敝 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 敝 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 92%.
Words this family builds
- 硬幣
- 作弊
- 貨幣
- 隱蔽
- 金幣
- 酷斃
- 蒙蔽
- 坐以待斃
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