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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员

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3

员 (yuán)

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Tone Fan-out (员)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 1xūn

Tone 2yuán

Tone 3sǔn

Family Characters (9)

Root: 员

员

yuán

HSK 3

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

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圆

yuán

HSK 4

囗(enclosure)

circle, round, yuan

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损

sǔn

HSK 5

扌(hand)

to damage, to lose, sarcastic

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勋

xūn

HSK 7

力(power)

variant of 勳|勋[xun1]

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陨

yǔn

HSK 7

阝(city)

(bound form) to fall from the sky; variant of 殞|殒[yun3]

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埙

xūn

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土(earth)

ocarina; wind instrument consisting of an egg-shaped chamber with holes

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殒

yǔn

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歹(death)

(literary) to perish; to die

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筼

yún

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⺮(bamboo)

used in 篔簹|筼筜[yun2 dang1]

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郧

yún

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阝(city)

name of a feudal state

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