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:

局

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4

局 (jú)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 1jū

Tone 2jú

Tone 5

Root: 局

局

jú

HSK 4

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

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侷

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焗

jú

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(dialect) to cook in salt or sand, inside a sealed pot; to steam

鋦

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锔

jū

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to mend by stapling or cramping broken pieces together