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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:
敄
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

敄 ()

6
Family Characters
0
HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (敄)

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

3 Active Tones
Tone 2máo
Tone 4wù
Tone 5

Family Characters (6)

Root: 敄
敄
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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

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婺
wù
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beautiful

蝥
máo
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variant of 蟊[mao2]

鍪
móu
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(archaic) iron pot; (archaic) battle helmet

鹜
wù
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duck

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