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.

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癸

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

癸 (guǐ)

tenth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; tenth in order

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 2kuí

Tone 3guǐ

Tone 4què

Family Characters (6)

Root: 癸

癸

guǐ

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

tenth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; tenth in order

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揆

kuí

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扌(hand)

consider; estimate

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暌

kuí

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日(sun)

in opposition to; separated from

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睽

kuí

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目(eye)

separated; stare

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葵

kuí

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艹(plants)

used in the names of various herbaceous plants

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阕

què

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门(door)

(literary) to end; to stop; one of the stanzas (usually two) of a ci poem 詞|词[ci2]

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