The 苗 family
苗 · miáo · ㄇㄧㄠˊ — sprout
Know 苗 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 貓、描、瞄、錨. 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.
- 貓māo · ㄇㄠ部首 豸 · worm-like invertebratecat; (dialect) to hide oneself68%
- 描miáo · ㄇㄧㄠˊ部首 扌 提手旁 · handto depict; to trace (a drawing)90%
- 瞄miáo · ㄇㄧㄠˊ部首 目 · eyeto take aim; (fig.) to aim one's looks at; to glance at90%
- 錨máo · ㄇㄠˊ部首 金 · goldanchor68%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 苗 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 苗 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 79%.
Words this family builds
- 描述
- 瞄準
- 掃描
- 小貓
- 熊貓
- 疫苗
- 貓頭鷹
- 貓咪
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