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:

奥

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7

奥 (ào)

obscure, mysterious, Austria, Olympics

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Tone Fan-out (奥)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 1ō

Tone 4ào

Tone 5

Family Characters (6)

Root: 奥

奥

ào

HSK 7

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

obscure, mysterious, Austria, Olympics

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噢

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口(mouth)

oh; ah (used to indicate realization); also pr. [ou4]

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懊

ào

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忄(heart)

to regret

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澳

ào

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氵(water)

Macao (abbr. for 澳門|澳门[Ao4 men2]); Australia (abbr. for 澳大利亞|澳大利亚[Ao4 da4 li4 ya4])

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燠

yù

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火(fire)

warm

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襖

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衤(clothes)

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