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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及

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3

及 (jí)

and / to reach / up to

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Tone Fan-out (及)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 1xī

Tone 2jí

Tone 5

Family Characters (11)

Root: 及

及

jí

HSK 3

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

and / to reach / up to

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级

jí

HSK 2

纟(silk)

level, grade, rank

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极

jí

HSK 3

木(tree)

extremely, pole, utmost

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吸

xī

HSK 4

口(mouth)

to breathe, to suck in, to absorb

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圾

jī

HSK 4

土(earth)

garbage, trash, waste

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岌

jí

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山(mountain)

lofty peak; perilous

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汲

jí

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氵(water)

surname Ji; to draw (water)

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笈

jí

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⺮(bamboo)

trunks (for books)

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級

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糹(silk)

—

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芨

jí

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艹(plants)

Bletilla hyacinthina (mucilaginous); Acronym for the Chinese Elder tree 菫草

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趿

tā

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足(foot)

see 趿拉[ta1 la5]

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