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:
奎
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
奎 (kuí)
crotch; 15th of the 28th constellations of Chinese astronomy
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Family Characters
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HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (奎)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2kuí
Family Characters (3)
Root: 奎奎
kuí
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
crotch; 15th of the 28th constellations of Chinese astronomy