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:

厷

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

厷 (gōng)

old variant of 肱[gong1]

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HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (厷)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 1gōng

Tone 2xióng

Tone 5

Family Characters (6)

Root: 厷

厷

gōng

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

old variant of 肱[gong1]

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雄

xióng

HSK 5

隹(short-tailed bird)

male, powerful, mighty

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宏

hóng

HSK 6

宀(roof)

magnificent

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肱

gōng

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⺼(meat)

upper arm; arm

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閎

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門(door)

—

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闳

hóng

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门(door)

surname Hong; big

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