The 龍 family
龍 · lóng · ㄌㄨㄥˊ — Chinese dragon
Know 龍 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 籠、聾、寵、嚨. 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.
- 籠lóng · ㄌㄨㄥˊ部首 竹 · bambooenclosing frame made of bamboo, wire etc; cage; basket; steamer basket92%
- 聾lóng · ㄌㄨㄥˊ部首 耳 · eardeaf92%
- 寵chǒng · ㄔㄨㄥˇ部首 宀 寶蓋頭 · "roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 寶蓋|宝盖to love; to pamper69%
- 嚨lóng · ㄌㄨㄥˊ部首 口 · mouththroat92%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 龍 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 龍 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 86%.
Words this family builds
- 喉嚨
- 寵物
- 恐龍
- 籠子
- 籠罩
- 聾子
- 寵壞
- 受寵
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