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:

孚

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

孚 (fú)

to trust; to believe in

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HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (孚)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 1fū

Tone 2fú

Tone 3rǔ

Family Characters (11)

Root: 孚

孚

fú

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

to trust; to believe in

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乳

rǔ

HSK 6

乚(second)

milk

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浮

fú

HSK 6

氵(water)

to float

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俘

fú

HSK 7

亻(person)

to take prisoner; prisoner of war

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桴

fú

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木(tree)

beam; rafter

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殍

piǎo

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歹(death)

(literary) to die of starvation

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稃

fū

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禾(grain)

husk; outside shell of grain

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脬

pāo

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⺼(meat)

bladder

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莩

fú

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艹(plants)

membrane lining inside a cylindrical stem; culm

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蜉

fú

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虫(insect)

used in 蚍蜉[pi2 fu2]; used in 蜉蝣[fu2 you2]

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郛

fú

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阝(city)

suburbs

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