HanziGuru.Radicals Explorer
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:
圼
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

圼 ()

3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (圼)

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

3 Active Tones
Tone 1niē
Tone 4niè
Tone 5

Family Characters (3)

Root: 圼
圼
Expansion
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

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捏
niē
HSK 7

to pinch, mold, or fabricate

涅
niè
Expansion

(literary) alunite (formerly used as a black dye); (literary) to dye black

圼 Family — 捏, 涅… | HanziGuru