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:

㒼

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

㒼 ()

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HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (㒼)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 2mán

Tone 3mǎn

Tone 5

Family Characters (9)

Root: 㒼

㒼

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

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满

mǎn

HSK 2

氵(water)

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瞒

mán

HSK 7

目(eye)

to conceal from

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滿

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氵(water)

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瞞

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目(eye)

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螨

mǎn

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虫(insect)

mite

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蟎

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虫(insect)

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蹒

pán

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足(foot)

used in 蹣跚|蹒跚[pan2 shan1]; Taiwan pr. [man2]

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蹣

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足(foot)

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