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.

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宾

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 5

宾 (bīn)

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Tone Fan-out (宾)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 1bīn

Tone 2pín

Tone 4bìn

Family Characters (11)

Root: 宾

宾

bīn

HSK 5

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

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滨

bīn

HSK 7

氵(water)

(bound form) water's edge; bank; shore; (bound form) to border on (a lake, river etc)

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缤

bīn

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纟(silk)

colorful, florid, cascading

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嫔

pín

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女(woman)

imperial concubine

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摈

bìn

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扌(hand)

to reject; to expel

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槟

bīn

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木(tree)

used in 檳子|槟子[bin1 zi5]

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殡

bìn

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歹(death)

a funeral; to encoffin a corpse

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膑

bìn

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⺼(meat)

variant of 髕|髌[bin4]

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镔

bīn

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钅(metal)

fine steel

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髌

bìn

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骨(bone)

kneecapping; to cut or smash the kneecaps as corporal punishment

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鬓

bìn

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髟(long hair)

temples; hair on the temples

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