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:

害

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3

害 (hài)

harm

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (害)

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

4 Active Tones

Tone 1gē

Tone 2huá

Tone 4hài

Tone 5

Family Characters (6)

Root: 害

害

hài

HSK 3

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

harm

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割

gē

HSK 7

刂(knife)

to cut

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豁

huá

HSK 7

谷(valley)

to play Chinese finger-guessing game

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辖

xiá

HSK 7

车(car)

linchpin / govern / jurisdiction

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嗐

hài

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口(mouth)

exclamation of regret

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轄

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車(car)

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