The 次 family
次 · cì · ㄘˋ — time (occurrence)
Know 次 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 資、姿、茨、瓷. 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.
- 資zī · ㄗ部首 貝 · cowrieresources; capital67%
- 姿zī · ㄗ部首 女 · femalebeauty; disposition67%
- 茨cí · ㄘˊ部首 艸 · grassCaltrop or puncture vine (Tribulus terrestris); to thatch (a roof)80%
- 瓷cí · ㄘˊ部首 瓦 · roof tilechinaware; porcelain80%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 次 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 次 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 74%.
Words this family builds
- 一次
- 第一次
- 下次
- 每次
- 再次
- 上次
- 資料
- 幾次
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