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:

咅

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

咅 (pǒu)

pooh; pah

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (咅)

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

5 Active Tones

Tone 1pōu

Tone 2péi

Tone 3pǒu

Tone 4bù

Tone 5

Family Characters (16)

Root: 咅

咅

pǒu

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

pooh; pah

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部

bù

HSK 2

阝(city)

ministry, department, section, part

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培

péi

HSK 4

土(earth)

to cultivate, bank up with earth, train

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赔

péi

HSK 5

贝(shell)

compensate, indemnify, suffer a financial loss

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陪

péi

HSK 5

阝(city)

to accompany

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剖

pōu

HSK 7

刂(knife)

to cut open, to analyze

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菩

pú

HSK 7

艹(plants)

used in bodhisattva or bodhi

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掊

pǒu

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扌(hand)

break up; hit

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涪

fú

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氵(water)

(name of a river)

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焙

bèi

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火(fire)

to dry over a fire; to bake

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瓿

bù

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瓦(tile)

a kind of vase (old); see 安瓿[an1 bu4]

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碚

bèi

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石(stone)

(used in place names)

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賠

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貝(shell)

—

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踣

bó

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足(foot)

(literary) to tumble; to fall down; (literary) to fall dead

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醅

pēi

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酉(wine vessel)

unstrained spirits

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锫

péi

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钅(metal)

berkelium (chemistry)

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