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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:
数
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2

数 (shǔ)

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3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (数)

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

1 Active Tones
Tone 3shǔ

Family Characters (3)

Root: 数
数
shǔ
HSK 2
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

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擞
sǒu
Expansion

used in 抖擻|抖擞[dou3 sou3]

薮
sǒu
Expansion

marsh; gathering place

数 (shǔ) Family — 擞, 薮… | HanziGuru