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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:
兒
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

兒 ()

7
Family Characters
0
HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (兒)

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

3 Active Tones
Tone 2ní
Tone 4nì
Tone 5

Family Characters (7)

Root: 兒
兒
Expansion
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

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猊
ní
Expansion

used in 狻猊[suan1 ni2]

睨
nì
Expansion

to look askance at

阋
xì
Expansion

to argue; to quarrel

鲵
ní
Expansion

Cryptobranchus japonicus; salamander

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