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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厥

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

厥 (jué)

to faint; to lose consciousness

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Tone Fan-out (厥)

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

4 Active Tones

Tone 1juē

Tone 2jué

Tone 4guì

Tone 5

Family Characters (12)

Root: 厥

厥

jué

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

to faint; to lose consciousness

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劂

jué

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刂(knife)

used in 剞劂[ji1 jue2]

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噘

juē

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口(mouth)

to pout; (dialect) to scold

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嶡

guì

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山(mountain)

precipitous; mountainous

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撅

juē

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扌(hand)

to protrude; to stick out

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橛

jué

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木(tree)

a peg; low post

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獗

jué

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犭(dog)

used in 猖獗[chang1 jue2]

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蕨

jué

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艹(plants)

Pteridium aquilinum; bracken

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蹶

jué

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足(foot)

to stumble; to trample

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镢

jué

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钅(metal)

(dialect) (bound form) mattock; hoe

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鱖

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魚(fish)

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鳜

guì

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鱼(fish)

mandarin fish; Chinese perch (Siniperca chuatsi)

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