The 良 family
良 · liáng · ㄌㄧㄤˊ — good
Know 良 and the readings of 5 more characters follow: 娘、浪、朗、郎、狼. 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.
- 娘niáng · ㄋㄧㄤˊ部首 女 · femalemother; young lady65%
- 浪làng · ㄌㄤˋ部首 氵 三點水 · waterwave; breaker65%
- 朗lǎng · ㄌㄤˇ部首 月 · moonclear; bright65%
- 郎láng · ㄌㄤˊ部首 邑 · city(arch.) minister; official65%
- 狼láng · ㄌㄤˊ部首 犭 犬部旁 · (literary) dogwolf65%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 良 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 良 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 65%.
Words this family builds
- 姑娘
- 浪費
- 浪漫
- 布朗
- 新娘
- 善良
- 良好
- 流浪
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