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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:
圣
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 6

圣 (kū)

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3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (圣)

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

1 Active Tones
Tone 1kū

Family Characters (3)

Root: 圣
圣
kū
HSK 6
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

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柽
chēng
Expansion

tamarisk

蛏
chēng
Expansion

mussel; razor clam

圣 (kū) Family — 柽, 蛏… | HanziGuru