The 可 family
可 · kě · kè · ㄎㄜˇ — can
Know 可 and the readings of 5 more characters follow: 何、哥、河、柯、呵. 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.
- 何hé · ㄏㄜˊ部首 亻 單人旁 · personwhat; how; why; surname He64%
- 哥gē · ㄍㄜ部首 口 · mouthelder brother64%
- 河hé · ㄏㄜˊ部首 氵 三點水 · waterriver; the Yellow River64%
- 柯kē · ㄎㄜ部首 木 · treesurname Ke77%
- 呵hē · ㄏㄜ部首 口 · mouthto scold; to expel breath64%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 可 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 可 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 67%.
Words this family builds
- 可以
- 可能
- 可是
- 任何
- 如何
- 哥哥
- 不可
- 可怕
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