The 今 family
今 · jīn · ㄐㄧㄣ — now
Know 今 and the readings of 5 more characters follow: 金、陰、琴、禽、吟. 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.
- 金jīn · ㄐㄧㄣgold; chemical element Au85%
- 陰yīn · ㄧㄣ部首 阝 耳朵旁 · moundovercast (weather); cloudy64%
- 琴qín · ㄑㄧㄣˊ部首 玨 · jadeguqin 古琴 (a type of zither); musical instrument in general64%
- 禽qín · ㄑㄧㄣˊ部首 禸 · trackbirds; fowl; (literary) birds and animals64%
- 吟yín · ㄧㄣˊ部首 口 · mouthto chant; to recite; verse; song (often used in titles of classical poems)64%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 今 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 今 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 68%.
Words this family builds
- 今天
- 今晚
- 今年
- 如今
- 現金
- 美金
- 今日
- 今早
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