The 甬 family
甬 · yǒng · ㄩㄥˇ — path screened by walls on both sides
Know 甬 and the readings of 5 more characters follow: 通、痛、勇、桶、捅. 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.
- 通tōng · ㄊㄨㄥ部首 辶 走之旁 · walkto go through; to connect; to understand; general56%
- 痛tòng · ㄊㄨㄥˋ部首 疒 病字頭 · sickache; pain56%
- 勇yǒng · ㄩㄥˇ部首 力 · strengthbrave86%
- 桶tǒng · ㄊㄨㄥˇ部首 木 · treebucket; (trash) can56%
- 捅tǒng · ㄊㄨㄥˇ部首 扌 提手旁 · handto poke; to jab; to give (sb) a nudge; to prod56%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 甬 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 甬 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 62%.
Words this family builds
- 通過
- 痛苦
- 通知
- 通常
- 勇敢
- 普通
- 勇氣
- 通話
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