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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斗
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4
斗 (dǒu)
abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 北斗星[Bei3 dou3 xing1]; dry measure for grain equal to ten 升[sheng1] or one-tenth of a 石[dan4]
4
Family Characters
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HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (斗)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 3dǒu
Family Characters (4)
Root: 斗斗
dǒu
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 北斗星[Bei3 dou3 xing1]; dry measure for grain equal to ten 升[sheng1] or one-tenth of a 石[dan4]
枓
dǒu
Expansion(architecture) square wooden bearing block used to support a bracket in a dougong 斗拱[dou3 gong3] bracket system