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:
於
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Family Characters
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HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (於)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1yū
Tone 4è
Tone 5
Family Characters (6)
Root: 於於
yū
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Yu; Taiwan pr. [Yu2]
瘀
yū
Expansionhematoma (internal blood clot); extravasated blood (spilt into surrounding tissue)