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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咢

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

咢 (è)

beat a drum; startle

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Tone Fan-out (咢)

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

2 Active Tones

Tone 4è

Tone 5

Family Characters (14)

Root: 咢

咢

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

beat a drum; startle

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鳄

HSK 7

鱼(fish)

crocodile, alligator

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愕

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忄(heart)

startled

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腭

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⺼(meat)

palate; roof of the mouth

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萼

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艹(plants)

calyx of a flower

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諤

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言(speech)

—

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谔

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讠(speech)

honest speech

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鄂

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阝(city)

surname E; abbr. for Hubei Province 湖北省[Hu2 bei3 Sheng3]

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锷

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钅(metal)

blade edge; sharp

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顎

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頁(head)

—

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颚

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页(head)

jaw; palate

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鶚

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鳥(bird)

—

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鹗

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鸟(bird)

(bird species of China) osprey (Pandion haliaetus)

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齶

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齒(tooth)

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