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Decode Chinese characters by their shared sound roots and see how semantic radicals split their meanings across tones.

Popular Roots:
玄
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7

玄 (xuán)

black, mysterious

View Root Character PageKangxi #95 (玄) · View Radical
10
Family Characters
4
HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (玄)

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

3 Active Tones
Tone 2xuán
Tone 4xuàn
Tone 5

Family Characters (10)

Root: 玄
玄
xuán
HSK 7
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

black, mysterious

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弦
xián
HSK 7
弓(bow)

bow string / string of a musical instrument

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炫
xuàn
HSK 7
火(fire)

to dazzle, to show off, cool

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畜
chù
HSK 7
田(field)

livestock

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泫
xuàn
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氵(water)

weep

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痃
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疒(sickness)

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眩
xuàn
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目(eye)

(literary) dizzy; (literary) dazzled; bewildered

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舷
xián
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舟(boat)

side of a ship or an aircraft

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鉉
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釒(metal)

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铉
xuàn
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钅(metal)

stick-like implement inserted into the handles of a tripod cauldron in ancient times in order to lift the cauldron; commonly used in Korean names, transcribed as "hyun"

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