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:

婴

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7

婴 (yīng)

infant; baby

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Tone Fan-out (婴)

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

2 Active Tones

Tone 1yīng

Tone 3yǐng

Family Characters (8)

Root: 婴

婴

yīng

HSK 7

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

infant; baby

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嘤

yīng

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口(mouth)

calling of birds

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撄

yīng

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扌(hand)

oppose; to attack

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樱

yīng

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木(tree)

cherry

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璎

yīng

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王(jade)

necklace

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瘿

yǐng

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疒(sickness)

goiter; knob on tree

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缨

yīng

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纟(silk)

tassel; sth shaped like a tassel (e.g. a leaf etc)

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鹦

yīng

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鸟(bird)

(bound form) parrot

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