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:

旬

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7

旬 (xún)

ten-day period

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Tone Fan-out (旬)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 2xún

Tone 4xùn

Tone 5

Family Characters (13)

Root: 旬

旬

xún

HSK 7

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

ten-day period

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询

xún

HSK 5

讠(speech)

to ask about

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峋

xún

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山(mountain)

used in 嶙峋[lin2 xun2]

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徇

xùn

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彳(stepping)

to give in to; to be swayed by (personal considerations etc)

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恂

xún

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忄(heart)

sincere

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殉

xùn

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歹(death)

to be buried with the dead; to die for a cause

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洵

xún

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氵(water)

truly; whirlpool

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筍

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⺮(bamboo)

—

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絢

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糹(silk)

—

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绚

xuàn

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纟(silk)

adorned; swift

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荀

xún

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艹(plants)

surname Xun; (archaic) name of a plant mentioned in ancient texts

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詢

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言(speech)

—

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郇

xún

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阝(city)

name of a feudal state

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