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:

予

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 6

予 (yú)

I, me

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Tone Fan-out (予)

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

5 Active Tones

Tone 1shū

Tone 2yú

Tone 3yě

Tone 4yù

Tone 5

Family Characters (9)

Root: 予

予

yú

HSK 6

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

I, me

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舒

shū

HSK 2

舍(home)

to stretch, relax, comfortable

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预

yù

HSK 3

页(head)

to advance, in advance, beforehand, to prepare

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序

xù

HSK 4

广(shelter)

order; sequence; preface

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豫

yù

HSK 5

象(elephant)

abbr. for Henan province 河南 in central China; happy

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野

yě

HSK 6

里(village)

old variant of 野[ye3]

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妤

yú

Expansion

女(woman)

used in 婕妤[jie2 yu2]

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杼

zhù

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木(tree)

shuttle of a loom

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預

Expansion

頁(head)

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