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:

卜

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7

卜 (bǔ)

divine

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HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (卜)

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

5 Active Tones

Tone 1pū

Tone 2pú

Tone 3bǔ

Tone 4fù

Tone 5

Family Characters (9)

Root: 卜

卜

bǔ

HSK 7

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

divine

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补

bǔ

HSK 3

衤(clothes)

to repair, mend, or supplement

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扑

pū

HSK 6

扌(hand)

to pounce on, to flap, to throw oneself at

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仆

pú

HSK 7

亻(person)

servant

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朴

pǔ

HSK 7

木(tree)

plain, simple, honest

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赴

fù

HSK 7

走(run)

to go

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訃

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言(speech)

—

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讣

fù

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讠(speech)

to report a bereavement; obituary

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钋

pō

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钅(metal)

polonium (chemistry); Taiwan pr. [po4]

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