Phonetic Families & Components

Sound Roots & Semantic Radicals Explorer

Decode Chinese characters by their shared sound roots and see how semantic radicals split their meanings across tones.

Popular Roots:

㐱

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

㐱 ()

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HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (㐱)

How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:

4 Active Tones

Tone 1zhēn

Tone 3zhěn

Tone 4chèn

Tone 5

Family Characters (10)

Root: 㐱

㐱

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

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诊

zhěn

HSK 5

讠(speech)

to examine or treat medically

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趁

chèn

HSK 7

走(run)

to take advantage of

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殄

tiǎn

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歹(death)

to exterminate

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畛

zhěn

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田(field)

border; boundary

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疹

zhěn

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疒(sickness)

measles; rash

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胗

zhēn

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⺼(meat)

gizzard

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診

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言(speech)

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軫

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車(car)

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轸

zhěn

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车(car)

square; strongly (as of emotion)

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