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:

會

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

會 ()

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Tone Fan-out (會)

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

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Tone 5

Family Characters (9)

Root: 會

會

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

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劊

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刂(knife)

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噲

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口(mouth)

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檜

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木(tree)

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燴

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火(fire)

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繪

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糹(silk)

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膾

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⺼(meat)

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薈

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艹(plants)

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鱠

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魚(fish)

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