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:

于

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2

于 (yú)

surname Yu; to go

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Tone Fan-out (于)

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

5 Active Tones

Tone 1xū

Tone 2yú

Tone 3yǔ

Tone 4yù

Tone 5

Family Characters (13)

Root: 于

于

yú

HSK 2

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

surname Yu; to go

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宇

yǔ

HSK 6

宀(roof)

universe / cosmos / space / house

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吁

yù

HSK 7

口(mouth)

variant of 籲|吁[yu4]

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圩

wéi

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土(earth)

dike

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玗

yú

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王(jade)

semiprecious stone; a kind of jade

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盂

yú

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皿(dish)

basin; wide-mouthed jar or pot

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盱

xū

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目(eye)

surname Xu; anxious

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竽

yú

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⺮(bamboo)

free reed wind instrument similar to the sheng 笙[sheng1], used in ancient China

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紆

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糹(thread)

—

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纡

yū

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纟(silk)

surname Yu; winding

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芋

yù

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艹(plants)

taro; Colocasia antiquorum

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迂

yū

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辶(walking)

literal-minded; pedantic

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邘

yú

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阝(city)

surname Yu; place name

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