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:

休

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1

休 (xiū)

to rest, stop, or don't

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Tone Fan-out (休)

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

2 Active Tones

Tone 1xiū

Tone 5

Family Characters (7)

Root: 休

休

xiū

HSK 1

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

to rest, stop, or don't

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咻

xiū

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口(mouth)

call out; jeer

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庥

xiū

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广(shelter)

protection; shade

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貅

xiū

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豸(feline beast)

see 貔貅[pi2 xiu1], composite mythical animal (originally 貅 was the female)

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髹

xiū

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髟(long hair)

red lacquer; to lacquer

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鵂

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鳥(bird)

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鸺

xiū

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鸟(bird)

used in 鵂鶹|鸺鹠[xiu1 liu2]

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