The 莫 family
莫 · mò · ㄇㄛˋ — do not
Know 莫 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 模、摸、漠、寞. 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.
- 模mó · ㄇㄛˊ部首 木 · treeto imitate; model78%
- 摸mō · ㄇㄛ部首 扌 提手旁 · handto feel with the hand; to touch78%
- 漠mò · ㄇㄛˋ部首 氵 三點水 · waterdesert; unconcerned87%
- 寞mò · ㄇㄛˋ部首 宀 寶蓋頭 · "roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 寶蓋|宝盖lonesome87%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 莫 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 莫 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 83%.
Words this family builds
- 沙漠
- 模特
- 寂寞
- 模式
- 莫斯科
- 模仿
- 模樣
- 模型
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