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.

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䍃

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

䍃 (yáo)

(archaic) vase; pitcher

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Tone Fan-out (䍃)

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

2 Active Tones

Tone 2yáo

Tone 5

Family Characters (14)

Root: 䍃

䍃

yáo

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

(archaic) vase; pitcher

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摇

yáo

HSK 4

扌(hand)

to shake

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谣

yáo

HSK 7

讠(speech)

variant of 謠|谣[yao2]

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遥

yáo

HSK 7

辶(walking)

(bound form) distant; remote; far away

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徭

yáo

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彳(stepping)

compulsory service

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搖

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扌(hand)

—

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瑤

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王(jade)

—

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瑶

yáo

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王(jade)

Yao ethnic group of southwest China and southeast Asia; surname Yao

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繇

yáo

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系(link)

folk-song; forced labor

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遙

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辶(walking)

—

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飖

yáo

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风(wind)

floating in the air

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颻

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風(wind)

—

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鳐

yáo

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鱼(fish)

skate (cartilaginous fish belonging to the family Rajidae); ray (fish)

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鷂

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鳥(bird)

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