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:

亚

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4

亚 (yà)

Asia

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Tone Fan-out (亚)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 1yā

Tone 3ě

Tone 4yà

Family Characters (9)

Root: 亚

亚

yà

HSK 4

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

Asia

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恶

HSK 4

心(heart)

evil, vicious, bad, nausea

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哑

yā

HSK 7

口(mouth)

(onom.) sound of cawing; sound of infant learning to talk

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垩

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土(earth)

to whitewash; to plaster

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垭

yā

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土(earth)

(dialect) strip of land between hills; used in place names

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娅

yà

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女(woman)

(literary) term of address between husbands of sisters; (used to transliterate foreign names)

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桠

yā

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木(tree)

forking branch

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氩

yà

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气(air)

argon (chemistry)

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痖

yǎ

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疒(sickness)

mute, incapable of speech; same as 啞|哑[ya3]

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