The 王 family
王 · wáng · wàng to reign over · ㄨㄤˊ — king or monarch
Know 王 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 往、皇、匡、旺. 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.
- 往wǎng · ㄨㄤˇ部首 彳 雙人旁 · step with the left foot (Kangxi radical 60)to go (in a direction); to80%
- 皇huáng · ㄏㄨㄤˊ部首 白 · whiteemperor67%
- 匡kuāng · ㄎㄨㄤ部首 匚 · "right open box" radical (Kangxi radical 22), occurring in 区, 医, 匹 etc(literary) to rectify; (literary) to assist67%
- 旺wàng · ㄨㄤˋ部首 日 · sunprosperous; flourishing80%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 王 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 王 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 74%.
Words this family builds
- 國王
- 王子
- 女王
- 前往
- 交往
- 皇后
- 王后
- 王國
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