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:

屯

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7

屯 (tún)

station soldiers, store up, village

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Tone Fan-out (屯)

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

5 Active Tones

Tone 1dūn

Tone 2tún

Tone 3dǔn

Tone 4dùn

Tone 5

Family Characters (17)

Root: 屯

屯

tún

HSK 7

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

station soldiers, store up, village

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顿

dùn

HSK 3

页(head)

to stop, pause, meal classifier

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纯

chún

HSK 4

纟(silk)

pure

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吨

dūn

HSK 5

口(mouth)

ton

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炖

dùn

HSK 7

火(fire)

to stew

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盹

dǔn

HSK 7

目(eye)

doze

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囤

dùn

Expansion

囗(enclosure)

bin for grain

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沌

dùn

Expansion

氵(water)

used in 混沌[hun4 dun4]

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砘

dùn

Expansion

石(stone)

(agriculture) to compact loose soil with a stone roller after sowing seeds; stone roller used for this purpose

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窀

zhūn

Expansion

穴(cave)

to bury

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純

Expansion

糹(silk)

—

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肫

zhūn

Expansion

⺼(meat)

gizzard

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鈍

Expansion

釒(metal)

—

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钝

dùn

Expansion

钅(metal)

blunt; stupid

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頓

Expansion

頁(head)

—

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飩

Expansion

飠(food)

—

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饨

tún

Expansion

饣(food)

used in 餛飩|馄饨[hun2 tun5]; Taiwan pr. [dun4]

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