The 直 family
直 · zhí · ㄓˊ — straight
Know 直 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 置、值、植、殖. 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.
- 置zhì · ㄓˋ部首 罒 · netto install; to place84%
- 值zhí · ㄓˊ部首 亻 單人旁 · personvalue; (to be) worth93%
- 植zhí · ㄓˊ部首 木 · treeto plant93%
- 殖zhí · ㄓˊ部首 歹 · badto grow; to reproduce93%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 直 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 直 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 91%.
Words this family builds
- 一直
- 直到
- 直接
- 位置
- 簡直
- 值得
- 價值
- 置信
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