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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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4

无 (mó)

nothing / have not / used in Sanskrit transliteration (mó)

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HSK Words

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

2 Active Tones

Tone 2mó

Tone 3fǔ

Family Characters (7)

Root: 无

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mó

HSK 4

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

nothing / have not / used in Sanskrit transliteration (mó)

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抚

fǔ

HSK 7

扌(hand)

to comfort

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呒

fǔ

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口(mouth)

perplexed; astonished

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妩

wǔ

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女(woman)

used in 嫵媚|妩媚[wu3 mei4]

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庑

wú

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广(shelter)

variant of 蕪|芜[wu2]

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怃

wǔ

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忄(heart)

(literary) to have tender affection for; (literary) discouraged; disappointed

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芜

wú

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艹(plants)

overgrown with weeds

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