The 至 family
至 · zhì · ㄓˋ — to arrive
Know 至 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 室、致、姪、窒. 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.
- 室shì · ㄕˋ部首 宀 寶蓋頭 · "roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 寶蓋|宝盖room; work unit69%
- 致zhì · ㄓˋ部首 至 · to arrive(literary) to send; to transmit; to convey; to cause; to lead to; consequently91%
- 姪zhí · ㄓˊ部首 女 · femalebrother's son; nephew82%
- 窒zhì · ㄓˋ部首 穴 · caveto obstruct; to stop up91%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 至 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 至 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 83%.
Words this family builds
- 甚至
- 至少
- 公室
- 實驗室
- 至於
- 導致
- 地下室
- 致命
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