The 氐 family
氐 · dī · dǐ foundation · ㄉㄧ — name of an ancient tribe
Know 氐 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 底、低、抵、邸. 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.
- 底dǐ · ㄉㄧˇ部首 广 · "house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 etcbottom; base; background; foundation83%
- 低dī · ㄉㄧ部首 亻 單人旁 · personlow; beneath92%
- 抵dǐ · ㄉㄧˇ部首 扌 提手旁 · handto press against; to support; to prop up; to resist; to withstand83%
- 邸dǐ · ㄉㄧˇ部首 邑 · cityresidence of a high-ranking official83%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 氐 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 氐 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 85%.
Words this family builds
- 到底
- 徹底
- 底下
- 抵達
- 抵抗
- 臥底
- 降低
- 海底
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