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 2
更 (gēng)
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9
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (更)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1gēng
Tone 3gěng
Tone 4yìng
Tone 5
Family Characters (9)
Root: 更更
gēng
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
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