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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夅

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

夅 (jiàng)

old variant of 降[jiang4]

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HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (夅)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 2páng

Tone 4jiàng

Tone 5

Family Characters (6)

Root: 夅

夅

jiàng

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

old variant of 降[jiang4]

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降

jiàng

HSK 4

阝(city)

to drop, to fall, to descend

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洚

jiàng

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氵(water)

flood

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絳

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糹(silk)

—

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绛

jiàng

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纟(silk)

capital of the Jin State during the Spring and Autumn Period (770-475 BC); purple-red

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逄

páng

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辶(walking)

surname Pang

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