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:

彭

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

彭 (péng)

surname Peng

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (彭)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 1pēng

Tone 2péng

Tone 4bèng

Family Characters (6)

Root: 彭

彭

péng

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

surname Peng

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膨

péng

HSK 7

⺼(meat)

swollen

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嘭

pēng

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口(mouth)

(onom.) bang

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澎

péng

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氵(water)

used in 澎湃[peng2 pai4]; Taiwan pr. [peng1]

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甏

bèng

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瓦(tile)

a squat jar for holding wine, sauces etc

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蟛

péng

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虫(insect)

used in 蟛蜞[peng2 qi2]

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