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:

畺

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

畺 (jiāng)

old variant of 疆[jiang1]

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HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (畺)

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

2 Active Tones

Tone 1jiāng

Tone 5

Family Characters (8)

Root: 畺

畺

jiāng

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

old variant of 疆[jiang1]

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僵

jiāng

HSK 7

亻(person)

rigid, deadlock, stiff

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彊

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弓(bow)

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殭

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歹(death)

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礓

jiāng

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石(stone)

a small stone

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缰

jiāng

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纟(silk)

variant of 韁|缰[jiang1]

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薑

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艹(plants)

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韁

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革(raw leather)

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