The 戔 family
戔 · jiān · ㄐㄧㄢ — narrow
Know 戔 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 錢、殘、賤、淺. 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.
- 錢qián · ㄑㄧㄢˊ部首 金 · goldmoney; coin64%
- 殘cán · ㄘㄢˊ部首 歹 · badto destroy; to spoil56%
- 賤jiàn · ㄐㄧㄢˋ部首 貝 · cowrieinexpensive; lowly77%
- 淺qiǎn · ㄑㄧㄢˇ部首 氵 三點水 · watershallow; light (color)64%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 戔 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 戔 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 65%.
Words this family builds
- 殘忍
- 殘酷
- 金錢
- 價錢
- 賤人
- 付錢
- 殘殺
- 零錢
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