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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有

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1

有 (yǒu)

to have; there is

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Tone Fan-out (有)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 3yǒu

Tone 4yù

Tone 5

Family Characters (10)

Root: 有

有

yǒu

HSK 1

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

to have; there is

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郁

yù

HSK 7

阝(city)

surname Yu; (bound form) strongly fragrant

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侑

yòu

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亻(person)

(literary) to urge sb (to eat or drink)

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囿

yòu

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囗(enclosure)

park; to limit

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宥

yòu

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宀(roof)

to forgive; to help

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洧

wěi

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氵(water)

name of a river

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迶

yòu

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辶(walking)

to walk

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铕

yǒu

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钅(metal)

europium (chemistry)

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鮪

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魚(fish)

—

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鲔

wěi

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鱼(fish)

little tuna; Euthynnus alletteratus

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