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:

加

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2

加 (jiā)

to add / plus / Canada

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HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (加)

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

4 Active Tones

Tone 1jiā

Tone 2qué

Tone 4jià

Tone 5

Family Characters (15)

Root: 加

加

jiā

HSK 2

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

to add / plus / Canada

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咖

kā

HSK 3

口(mouth)

coffee

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架

jià

HSK 3

木(tree)

frame, rack, to support

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驾

jià

HSK 5

马(horse)

to drive, to pilot, to ride, harness

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嘉

jiā

HSK 6

壴(drum)

excellent, auspicious, praise

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瘸

qué

HSK 6

疒(sickness)

lame

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茄

jiā

HSK 6

艹(plants)

phonetic character used in loanwords for "jia"

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伽

gā

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亻(person)

used in the transliteration of Greek letters

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枷

jiā

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木(tree)

cangue (wooden collar like stocks used to restrain and punish criminals in China)

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痂

jiā

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疒(sickness)

scab

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笳

jiā

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⺮(bamboo)

whistle made of reed

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袈

jiā

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衣(clothes)

used in 袈裟[jia1 sha1]

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跏

jiā

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足(foot)

to sit cross-legged

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迦

jiā

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辶(walking)

(phonetic sound for Buddhist terms)

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駕

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馬(horse)

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