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:

既

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4

既 (jì)

already

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Tone Fan-out (既)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 3kǎi

Tone 4jì

Tone 5

Family Characters (9)

Root: 既

既

jì

HSK 4

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

already

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概

gài

HSK 3

木(tree)

general, approximate, or bearing

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慨

kǎi

HSK 7

忄(heart)

old variant of 慨[kai3]; to sigh (with emotion)

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溉

gài

HSK 7

氵(water)

to irrigate

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厩

jiù

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厂(cliff)

stable; barn

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嘅

gě

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口(mouth)

possessive particle (Cantonese); Mandarin equivalent: 的[de5]

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廄

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厂(cliff)

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暨

jì

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旦(dawn)

(literary) and; as well as; (literary) up to; as far as (as in 暨今[ji4 jin1] "up to now")

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鱀

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魚(fish)

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