The 未 family
未 · wèi · ㄨㄟˋ — not yet
Know 未 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 妹、味、魅、昧. 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.
- 妹mèi · ㄇㄟˋ部首 女 · femaleyounger sister56%
- 味wèi · ㄨㄟˋ部首 口 · mouthtaste; smell86%
- 魅mèi · ㄇㄟˋ部首 鬼 · disembodied spiritdemon; magic56%
- 昧mèi · ㄇㄟˋ部首 日 · sunto conceal; dark56%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 未 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 未 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 64%.
Words this family builds
- 未來
- 妹妹
- 味道
- 意味著
- 姐妹
- 美味
- 魅力
- 未知
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