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:

叕

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

叕 (zhuó)

to join together; to lack

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Tone Fan-out (叕)

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

4 Active Tones

Tone 1duō

Tone 2zhuó

Tone 4chuò

Tone 5

Family Characters (7)

Root: 叕

叕

zhuó

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

to join together; to lack

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啜

chuò

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口(mouth)

(literary) to drink; to sip

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惙

chuò

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忄(heart)

mournful; uncertain

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掇

duō

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扌(hand)

to pick up; to collect; to gather up

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敪

duó

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攵(strike)

to weigh; to cut

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輟

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車(car)

—

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辍

chuò

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车(car)

to stop (before completion); to cease

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