The 隹 family
隹 · zhuī · ㄓㄨㄟ — short-tailed bird
Know 隹 and the readings of 5 more characters follow: 誰、維、唯、推、堆. 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.
- 誰shéi · ㄕㄟˊ部首 言 · wordswho64%
- 維wéi · ㄨㄟˊ部首 糹 絞絲旁 · fine silkto preserve; to maintain64%
- 唯wéi · ㄨㄟˊ部首 口 · mouthonly; alone64%
- 推tuī · ㄊㄨㄟ部首 扌 提手旁 · handto push; to cut64%
- 堆duī · ㄉㄨㄟ部首 土 · earthto pile up; to heap up64%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 隹 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 隹 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 64%.
Words this family builds
- 唯一
- 一堆
- 維持
- 推薦
- 戴維
- 戴維斯
- 維護
- 推進
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