The 堯 family
堯 · yáo · ㄧㄠˊ — Yao or Tang Yao (c. 2200 BC), one of the Five legendary Emperors 五帝, second son of Di Ku 帝嚳|帝喾
Know 堯 and the readings of 6 more characters follow: 燒、繞、曉、饒、僥、翹. 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.
- 燒shāo · ㄕㄠ部首 火 · fireto burn; to set on fire; to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc)55%
- 繞rào · ㄖㄠˋ部首 糹 絞絲旁 · fine silkto wind; to coil (thread)55%
- 曉xiǎo · ㄒㄧㄠˇ部首 日 · sundawn; daybreak64%
- 饒ráo · ㄖㄠˊ部首 飠 食字旁 · to eatrich; abundant55%
- 僥jiǎo · ㄐㄧㄠˇ部首 亻 單人旁 · personby mere luck64%
- 翹qiào · ㄑㄧㄠˋ部首 羽 · featherto stick up; to rise on one end64%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 堯 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 堯 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 60%.
Words this family builds
- 燃燒
- 燒死
- 發燒
- 圍繞
- 繞過
- 知曉
- 燒傷
- 環繞
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