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:

熏

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7

熏 (xūn)

variant of 熏[xun1]

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Tone Fan-out (熏)

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

2 Active Tones

Tone 1xūn

Tone 5

Family Characters (6)

Root: 熏

熏

xūn

HSK 7

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

variant of 熏[xun1]

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勳

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力(power)

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曛

xūn

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日(sun)

twilight; sunset

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獯

xūn

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犭(dog)

used in 獯鬻[Xun1 yu4]

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薰

xūn

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艹(plants)

sweet-smelling grass; Coumarouna odorata

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醺

xūn

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酉(wine vessel)

helplessly intoxicated

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