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:

登

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4

登 (dēng)

to climb, ascend, publish

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Tone Fan-out (登)

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

4 Active Tones

Tone 1dēng

Tone 2chéng

Tone 4dèng

Tone 5

Family Characters (13)

Root: 登

登

dēng

HSK 4

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

to climb, ascend, publish

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凳

dèng

HSK 7

几(small table)

stool, bench

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橙

chéng

HSK 7

木(tree)

orange

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澄

chéng

HSK 7

氵(water)

variant of 澄[cheng2]

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瞪

dèng

HSK 7

目(eye)

to stare, to glare, to open eyes wide

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蹬

dēng

HSK 7

足(foot)

to step on, tread on, or dump someone

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噔

dēng

Expansion

口(mouth)

(onom.) thud; thump

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燈

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火(fire)

—

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簦

dēng

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⺮(bamboo)

large umbrella for stalls; an ancient kind of bamboo or straw hat

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證

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言(speech)

—

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邓

dèng

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阝(city)

surname Deng

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鄧

Expansion

阝(city)

—

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镫

dèng

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钅(metal)

stirrup

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