The 正 family
正 · zhèng · zhēng first month of the lunar year · ㄓㄥˋ — straight
Know 正 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 整、政、症、征. 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.
- 整zhěng · ㄓㄥˇ部首 攴 · strikewhole; complete; entire; (before a measure word) whole; (before or after number + measure word) exactly; in good order; tidy; neat80%
- 政zhèng · ㄓㄥˋ部首 攴 · strikepolitical; politics89%
- 症zhèng · ㄓㄥˋ部首 疒 病字頭 · sickdisease; illness89%
- 征zhēng · ㄓㄥ部首 彳 雙人旁 · step with the left foot (Kangxi radical 60)journey; trip80%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 正 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 正 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 85%.
Words this family builds
- 正在
- 方正
- 真正
- 整個
- 政府
- 正常
- 反正
- 正是
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