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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啇

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

啇 ()

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HSK Words

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 1dī

Tone 2dí

Tone 5

Family Characters (10)

Root: 啇

啇

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

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敌

dí

HSK 4

攵(strike)

enemy

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滴

dī

HSK 6

氵(water)

to drip

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嘀

dī

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口(mouth)

(onom.) sound of dripping water, a ticking clock etc

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嫡

dí

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女(woman)

(bound form) of or by the wife, as opposed to a concubine (contrasted with 庶[shu4])

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敵

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攵(strike)

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謫

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言(speech)

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谪

zhé

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讠(speech)

to relegate a high official to a minor post in an outlying region (punishment in imperial China); to banish or exile

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適

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辶(walking)

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镝

dī

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钅(metal)

dysprosium (chemistry)

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