The 旱 family
旱 · hàn · ㄏㄢˋ — drought
Know 旱 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 趕、焊、稈、桿. 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.
- 趕gǎn · ㄍㄢˇ部首 走 · to walkto overtake; to catch up with; to hurry; to rush66%
- 焊hàn · ㄏㄢˋ部首 火 · fireto weld; to braze; to solder88%
- 稈gǎn · ㄍㄢˇ部首 禾 · grain plantstalks of grain66%
- 桿gǎn · ㄍㄢˇ部首 木 · treestick; pole66%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 旱 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 旱 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 72%.
Words this family builds
- 趕快
- 趕緊
- 趕到
- 趕上
- 趕來
- 趕出
- 趕時間
- 趕不上
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