The 亢 family
亢 · kàng · ㄎㄤˋ — high
Know 亢 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 抗、航、骯、杭. 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.
- 抗kàng · ㄎㄤˋ部首 扌 提手旁 · handto resist; to fight87%
- 航háng · ㄏㄤˊ部首 舟 · boatboat; ship65%
- 骯āng · ㄤ部首 骨 · bonedirty65%
- 杭háng · ㄏㄤˊ部首 木 · treeabbr. for Hangzhou 杭州65%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 亢 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 亢 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 71%.
Words this family builds
- 反抗
- 抵抗
- 航空
- 航班
- 抗議
- 航行
- 抗拒
- 對抗
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