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:

朵

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 5

朵 (duǒ)

flower

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Tone Fan-out (朵)

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

2 Active Tones

Tone 3duǒ

Tone 4duò

Family Characters (6)

Root: 朵

朵

duǒ

HSK 5

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

flower

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躲

duǒ

HSK 5

身(body)

to hide, to dodge, to avoid

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剁

duò

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刂(knife)

to chop up (meat etc); to chop off (sb's hand etc)

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哚

duǒ

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口(mouth)

used in 吲哚[yin3 duo3]

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垛

duǒ

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土(earth)

battlement; target

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跺

duò

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足(foot)

variant of 跺[duo4]

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