The 登 family
登 · dēng · ㄉㄥ — to scale (a height)
Know 登 and the readings of 6 more characters follow: 證、燈、鄧、澄、橙、凳. 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.
- 證zhèng · ㄓㄥˋ部首 言 · wordscertificate; proof68%
- 燈dēng · ㄉㄥ部首 火 · firelamp; light90%
- 鄧dèng · ㄉㄥˋ部首 邑 · citysurname Deng81%
- 澄chéng · ㄔㄥˊ部首 氵 三點水 · waterclear; limpid68%
- 橙chéng · ㄔㄥˊ部首 木 · treeorange tree; orange (color)68%
- 凳dèng · ㄉㄥˋ部首 几 · small tablebench; stool81%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 登 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 登 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 76%.
Words this family builds
- 保證
- 證明
- 證據
- 證人
- 證實
- 登記
- 作證
- 證件
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