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:

敫

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

敫 (jiǎo)

surname Jiao; bright

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HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (敫)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 1jī

Tone 3jiǎo

Tone 5

Family Characters (8)

Root: 敫

敫

jiǎo

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

surname Jiao; bright

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激

jī

HSK 4

氵(water)

to arouse, fierce, violent

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邀

yāo

HSK 5

辶(walking)

to invite

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缴

jiǎo

HSK 7

纟(silk)

to hand in, pay, or seize

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徼

jiǎo

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彳(stepping)

by mere luck

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皦

jiǎo

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白(white)

surname Jiao; sparkling

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竅

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穴(cave)

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繳

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糹(thread)

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