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:

并

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3

并 (bìng)

and / furthermore / together

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HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (并)

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

5 Active Tones

Tone 1pīn

Tone 2píng

Tone 3bǐng

Tone 4bìng

Tone 5

Family Characters (8)

Root: 并

并

bìng

HSK 3

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

and / furthermore / together

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瓶

píng

HSK 2

瓦(tile)

bottle, vase, pitcher

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拼

pīn

HSK 5

扌(hand)

to piece together, to spell, to risk

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饼

bǐng

HSK 5

饣(food)

round flat cake, pastry

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屏

bīng

HSK 6

户(door)

screen, shield, or to hold breath

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迸

bèng

HSK 6

辶(walking)

to burst forth; to spurt

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胼

pián

Expansion

⺼(meat)

used in 胼胝[pian2 zhi1]

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餅

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飠(food)

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