星圖

The family

· gàn · ㄍㄢˋ dawn (archaic)

Know and the readings of 5 more characters follow: 看、幹、乾、翰、韓. 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.

倝 gàn · dawn (archaic)看 kàn · sound from 倝 · 66%幹 gàn · sound from 倝 · 88%乾 gān · sound from 倝 · 57%翰 hàn · sound from 倝 · 66%韓 hán · sound from 倝 · 66%

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.

The percentage is our computed confidence that really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 69%.

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