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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冓

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

冓 (gòu)

inner rooms of palace; ten billions

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Tone Fan-out (冓)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 1gōu

Tone 4gòu

Tone 5

Family Characters (9)

Root: 冓

冓

gòu

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

inner rooms of palace; ten billions

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構

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木(tree)

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溝

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氵(water)

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篝

gōu

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⺮(bamboo)

bamboo frame for drying clothes; bamboo cage

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觏

gòu

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见(see)

complete; meet unexpectedly

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講

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言(speech)

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購

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貝(shell)

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遘

gòu

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辶(walking)

meet unexpectedly

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鞲

gōu

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革(raw leather)

variant of 韝[gou1]

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