星圖

The 昜 family

昜 · yáng · ㄧㄤˊ — to open out, to expand

Know 昜 and the readings of 9 more characters follow: 場、傷、量、湯、陽、揚、腸、楊、暢. 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.

昜 yáng · to open out, to expand昜場 chǎng · sound from 昜 · 58%場傷 shāng · sound from 昜 · 58%傷量 liàng · sound from 昜 · 66%量湯 tāng · sound from 昜 · 58%湯陽 yáng · sound from 昜 · 89%陽揚 yáng · sound from 昜 · 89%揚腸 cháng · sound from 昜 · 58%腸楊 yáng · sound from 昜 · 89%楊暢 chàng · sound from 昜 · 58%暢

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

Words this family builds

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