The 蜀 family
蜀 · shǔ · ㄕㄨˇ — short name for Sichuan 四川 province
Know 蜀 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 獨、屬、觸、燭. 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.
- 獨dú · ㄉㄨˊ部首 犭 犬部旁 · (literary) dogalone; independent66%
- 屬shǔ · ㄕㄨˇ部首 尸 · (literary) person representing the deceased (during burial ceremonies)category; genus (taxonomy)88%
- 觸chù · ㄔㄨˋ部首 角 · angleto touch; to make contact with sth66%
- 燭zhú · ㄓㄨˊ部首 火 · firecandle; (literary) to illuminate66%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 蜀 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 蜀 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 72%.
Words this family builds
- 接觸
- 孤獨
- 單獨
- 獨自
- 獨立
- 金屬
- 蠟燭
- 獨特
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