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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:
慮
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

慮 ()

4
Family Characters
0
HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (慮)

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

3 Active Tones
Tone 2lǘ
Tone 4lǜ
Tone 5

Family Characters (4)

Root: 慮
慮
Expansion
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

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藘
lǘ
Expansion

madder

鑢
lǜ
Expansion

surname Lü; polishing tool

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