The 110 Phonetic Families: Free Poster, Night Sky Edition
The same 110 families on the app’s night sky, for screens and wall prints. 679 characters, each ringed around the component that carries its sound.
Free · PDF · 1 page · prints at any size · or the print edition
What is on it
- The families. Every component that marks the sound of 4 or more characters in the map: 110 phonetic heads, each ringed by the characters that borrow its sound, biggest family first.
- The grading. The color of each line shows how much of the head’s sound survives in today’s Taiwan Mandarin: the same syllable and tone (33%), the same syllable in another tone (26%), or a rhyme only (42%).
- The sources. Readings are Taiwan Mandarin. The data comes from NAER’s TBCL character list, the Dong Chinese character wiki, CJK Decomposition Data and CC-CEDICT, all credited on the sheet.
Made for a phone or desktop wallpaper, a tablet, or a printed wall poster. The dark background uses a lot of ink on a home printer, so print the print edition for a desk copy. The PDF is vector, 24 × 35 inches.
Explore the families in the map
Every family on the sheet has its own page with readings, meanings and the words it builds, and the map shows how each one connects to the rest. Start with 青, whose sound runs through 清、晴、請、情.
Free to print, copy and share. The poster and its adapted data are offered under CC BY-SA 4.0. The sources and what was changed are on the credits page. The sheet describes a curated set, not the whole script: links whose sound agreement scored under 50% were left out, which is why no family shows a member with no sound match at all.