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:

咠

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

咠 (qì)

to whisper; to blame, to slander

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Tone Fan-out (咠)

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

4 Active Tones

Tone 1jī

Tone 2jí

Tone 4qì

Tone 5

Family Characters (9)

Root: 咠

咠

qì

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

to whisper; to blame, to slander

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辑

jí

HSK 5

车(car)

to edit

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缉

jī

HSK 7

纟(silk)

to seize; to arrest

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戢

jí

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戈(halberd)

surname Ji; to restrain oneself

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揖

yī

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扌(hand)

to greet by raising clasped hands

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楫

jí

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木(tree)

oar (archaic)

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緝

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糹(thread)

—

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葺

qì

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艹(plants)

to repair

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輯

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車(car)

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