The 曾 family
曾 · céng · zēng great- · ㄘㄥˊ — once
Know 曾 and the readings of 5 more characters follow: 層、增、憎、蹭、贈. 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.
- 層céng · ㄘㄥˊ部首 尸 · (literary) person representing the deceased (during burial ceremonies)to pile on top of one another; layer; stratum89%
- 增zēng · ㄗㄥ部首 土 · earthto increase; to augment; to add to67%
- 憎zēng · ㄗㄥ部首 忄 豎心旁 · heartto detest67%
- 蹭cèng · ㄘㄥˋ部首 足 · footto rub against; to walk slowly80%
- 贈zèng · ㄗㄥˋ部首 貝 · cowrieto give as a present; to repel67%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 曾 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 曾 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 74%.
Words this family builds
- 曾經
- 增加
- 不曾
- 一層
- 憎恨
- 增長
- 高層
- 增援
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