The 肖 family
肖 · xiào · xiāo · ㄒㄧㄠˋ — look like, resemble, be like
Know 肖 and the readings of 5 more characters follow: 消、銷、悄、宵、逍. 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.
- 消xiāo · ㄒㄧㄠ部首 氵 三點水 · waterto diminish; to subside; to consume; to reduce77%
- 銷xiāo · ㄒㄧㄠ部首 金 · goldto melt (metal); to cancel; to annul77%
- 悄qiǎo · ㄑㄧㄠˇ部首 忄 豎心旁 · heartsilent, quiet, still; anxious64%
- 宵xiāo · ㄒㄧㄠ部首 宀 寶蓋頭 · "roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 寶蓋|宝盖night77%
- 逍xiāo · ㄒㄧㄠ部首 辶 走之旁 · walkramble, stroll, jaunt, loiter77%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 肖 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 肖 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 74%.
Words this family builds
- 消息
- 消失
- 取消
- 消滅
- 消防
- 肖恩
- 消除
- 銷售
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