The 羊 family
羊 · yáng · ㄧㄤˊ — sheep
Know 羊 and the readings of 6 more characters follow: 養、洋、氧、詳、祥、翔. 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.
- 養yǎng · ㄧㄤˇ部首 食 · to eatto raise (animals); to bring up (children)81%
- 洋yáng · ㄧㄤˊ部首 氵 三點水 · waterocean; vast90%
- 氧yǎng · ㄧㄤˇ部首 气 · steam, vaporoxygen (chemistry)81%
- 詳xiáng · ㄒㄧㄤˊ部首 言 · wordsdetailed; comprehensive68%
- 祥xiáng · ㄒㄧㄤˊ部首 礻 示字旁 · to showauspicious; propitious68%
- 翔xiáng · ㄒㄧㄤˊ部首 羽 · featherto soar; to glide68%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 羊 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 羊 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 76%.
Words this family builds
- 海洋
- 詳細
- 氧氣
- 收養
- 太平洋
- 領養
- 山羊
- 培養
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