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:

句

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2

句 (gōu)

variant of 勾[gou1]

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Tone Fan-out (句)

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

5 Active Tones

Tone 1gōu

Tone 2qú

Tone 3gǒu

Tone 4gòu

Tone 5

Family Characters (16)

Root: 句

句

gōu

HSK 2

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

variant of 勾[gou1]

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够

gòu

HSK 2

多(more)

enough

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狗

gǒu

HSK 2

犭(dog)

dog

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苟

gǒu

HSK 6

艹(plants)

if indeed / careless / temporary / surname Gou

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拘

jū

HSK 7

扌(hand)

to capture; to restrain

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劬

qú

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力(power)

labor

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岣

gǒu

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山(mountain)

name of a hill in Hunan

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昫

xù

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日(sun)

variant of 煦[xu4]; balmy

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朐

qú

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月(moon)

surname Qu

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枸

gōu

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木(tree)

bent; crooked

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竘

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立(stand)

—

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笱

gǒu

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⺮(bamboo)

basket for trapping fish

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駒

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馬(horse)

—

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驹

jū

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马(horse)

colt

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鸲

qú

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鸟(bird)

(bound form, used in the names of various kinds of bird, esp. robins and redstarts)

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鼩

qú

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鼠(rat)

used in 鼩鼱[qu2 jing1]

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