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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佥

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

佥 (qiān)

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Tone Fan-out (佥)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 1qiān

Tone 3jiǎn

Tone 4yàn

Family Characters (16)

Root: 佥

佥

qiān

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

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检

jiǎn

HSK 2

木(tree)

to check

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脸

liǎn

HSK 2

⺼(meat)

face

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险

xiǎn

HSK 3

阝(city)

danger

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验

yàn

HSK 3

马(horse)

variant of 驗|验[yan4]

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签

qiān

HSK 5

⺮(bamboo)

Japanese variant of 籤|签[qian1]

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剑

jiàn

HSK 6

刂(knife)

variant of 劍|剑[jian4]

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捡

jiǎn

HSK 6

扌(hand)

to pick up

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俭

jiǎn

HSK 7

亻(person)

(bound form) frugal; thrifty

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敛

liàn

HSK 7

攵(strike)

variant of 殮|殓[lian4]

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殓

liàn

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歹(death)

to prepare a dead body for coffin

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猃

xiǎn

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犭(dog)

a kind of dog with a long snout; see 獫狁|猃狁[Xian3 yun3]

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睑

jiǎn

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目(eye)

eyelid

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硷

jiǎn

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石(stone)

variant of 鹼|碱[jian3]

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莶

liǎn

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艹(plants)

variant of 蘞|蔹[lian3]; Taiwan pr. [lian4]

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裣

liǎn

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衤(clothes)

see 襝衽|裣衽[lian3 ren4]

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