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:

夸

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7

夸 (kuā)

boast, praise, exaggerate

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Tone Fan-out (夸)

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

4 Active Tones

Tone 1kuā

Tone 3kuǎ

Tone 4kuà

Tone 5

Family Characters (9)

Root: 夸

夸

kuā

HSK 7

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

boast, praise, exaggerate

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跨

kuà

HSK 6

足(foot)

to step across

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垮

kuǎ

HSK 7

土(earth)

to collapse (lit. or fig.)

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挎

kuà

HSK 7

扌(hand)

to carry (esp. slung over the arm, shoulder or side)

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侉

kuǎ

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亻(person)

foreign accent

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刳

kū

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刂(knife)

to cut open; rip up

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瓠

hù

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瓜(melon)

gourd

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胯

kuà

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⺼(meat)

crotch; groin

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袴

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衤(clothes)

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