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:

匋

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

匋 (táo)

pottery

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (匋)

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

2 Active Tones

Tone 1tāo

Tone 2táo

Family Characters (6)

Root: 匋

匋

táo

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

pottery

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萄

táo

HSK 5

艹(plants)

grape

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掏

tāo

HSK 6

扌(hand)

to fish out (from pocket), to scoop

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淘

táo

HSK 7

氵(water)

to wash, dredge, scoop out, or hunt for bargains

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啕

táo

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口(mouth)

(bound form) to wail

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醄

táo

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酉(wine vessel)

used in 酕醄[mao2 tao2]

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