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.

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攸

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

攸 (yōu)

distant, far; adverbial prefix

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (攸)

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

2 Active Tones

Tone 1yōu

Tone 2yóu

Family Characters (6)

Root: 攸

攸

yōu

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

distant, far; adverbial prefix

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修

xiū

HSK 3

彡(hair)

variant of 修[xiu1]

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悠

yōu

HSK 7

心(heart)

long or drawn out; remote in time or space

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倏

shū

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犬(dog)

sudden; abrupt

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脩

xiū

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⺼(meat)

dried meat presented by pupils to their teacher at their first meeting (in ancient times); dried; withered

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莜

yóu

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艹(plants)

see 莜麥|莜麦[you2 mai4]

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