The 旁 family
旁 · páng · ㄆㄤˊ — one side
Know 旁 and the readings of 5 more characters follow: 鎊、膀、磅、榜、謗. 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.
- 鎊bàng · ㄅㄤˋ部首 金 · goldpound (sterling) (loanword)65%
- 膀bǎng · ㄅㄤˇ部首 肉 · meatupper arm; wing65%
- 磅bàng · ㄅㄤˋ部首 石 · rockscale (instrument for weighing); to weigh65%
- 榜bǎng · ㄅㄤˇ部首 木 · treenotice or announcement; list of names65%
- 謗bàng · ㄅㄤˋ部首 言 · wordsto slander; to defame65%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 旁 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 旁 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 65%.
Words this family builds
- 旁邊
- 翅膀
- 肩膀
- 榜樣
- 英鎊
- 旁觀
- 一旁
- 波旁
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