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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:
冋
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

冋 (jiōng)

old variant of 坰[jiong1]

4
Family Characters
0
HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (冋)

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

2 Active Tones
Tone 1jiōng
Tone 3jiǒng

Family Characters (4)

Root: 冋
冋
jiōng
Expansion
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

old variant of 坰[jiong1]

扃
jiōng
Expansion

(literary) to shut or bolt a door; door

炯
jiǒng
Expansion

bright; clear

苘
qǐng
Expansion

Indian mallow (Abutilon theophrasti); Indian hemp (cannabis)

冋 (jiōng) Family — 扃, 炯, 苘… | HanziGuru