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:

朋

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1

朋 (péng)

friend

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Tone Fan-out (朋)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 1bēng

Tone 2péng

Tone 5

Family Characters (9)

Root: 朋

朋

péng

HSK 1

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

friend

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崩

bēng

HSK 7

山(mountain)

to collapse

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棚

péng

HSK 7

木(tree)

shed

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绷

bēng

HSK 7

纟(silk)

variant of 繃|绷[beng1]; variant of 繃|绷[beng3]

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鹏

péng

HSK 7

鸟(bird)

Peng, large fabulous bird

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堋

péng

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土(earth)

target in archery

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硼

péng

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石(stone)

boron (chemistry)

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萠

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艹(plants)

—

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鵬

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鳥(bird)

—

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