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:

吉

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 6

吉 (jí)

lucky

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Tone Fan-out (吉)

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

4 Active Tones

Tone 1jiē

Tone 2jí

Tone 4jì

Tone 5

Family Characters (17)

Root: 吉

吉

jí

HSK 6

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

lucky

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结

jiē

HSK 2

纟(silk)

to produce fruit, to bear, to tie

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桔

jú

HSK 5

木(tree)

variant of 橘[ju2]

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洁

jié

HSK 6

氵(water)

clean

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佶

jí

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亻(person)

difficult to pronounce

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劼

jié

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力(power)

careful; diligent

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咭

jī

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口(mouth)

variant of 嘰|叽[ji1]

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拮

jié

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扌(hand)

antagonistic; laboring hard

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秸

jiē

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禾(grain)

grain stalks left after threshing

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結

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糹(thread)

—

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詰

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言(speech)

—

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诘

jié

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讠(speech)

(bound form) to question closely; to interrogate

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頡

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頁(head)

—

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颉

xié

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页(head)

surname Xie; (of a bird) to fly upwards

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髻

jì

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髟(long hair)

hair rolled up in a bun, topknot

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鲒

jié

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鱼(fish)

oyster

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黠

xiá

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黑(black)

(phonetic); crafty

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