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:

叔

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4

叔 (shū)

uncle

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Tone Fan-out (叔)

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

2 Active Tones

Tone 1shū

Tone 4jì

Family Characters (6)

Root: 叔

叔

shū

HSK 4

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

uncle

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督

dū

HSK 6

目(eye)

supervise

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寂

jì

HSK 7

宀(roof)

silent

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椒

jiāo

HSK 7

木(tree)

pepper

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淑

shū

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氵(water)

(bound form) (of women) gentle; kind; lovely; admirable; (used in given names)

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菽

shū

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艹(plants)

legumes (peas and beans)

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