The 朱 family
朱 · zhū · ㄓㄨ — surname Zhu
Know 朱 and the readings of 5 more characters follow: 珠、殊、茱、蛛、侏. 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.
- 珠zhū · ㄓㄨ部首 玉 · jadebead; pearl93%
- 殊shū · ㄕㄨ部首 歹 · bad(literary) to kill; to behead; to sever; to separate; to surpass; different70%
- 茱zhū · ㄓㄨ部首 艸 · grassdogwood93%
- 蛛zhū · ㄓㄨ部首 虫 · insects, wormsspider93%
- 侏zhū · ㄓㄨ部首 亻 單人旁 · persondwarf93%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 朱 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 朱 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 88%.
Words this family builds
- 特殊
- 蜘蛛
- 珍珠
- 朱利安
- 侏儒
- 茱莉亞
- 朱麗葉
- 眼珠
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