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:

盍

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

盍 (hé)

variant of 盍[he2]

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (盍)

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

4 Active Tones

Tone 1kē

Tone 2hé

Tone 4kè

Tone 5

Family Characters (8)

Root: 盍

盍

hé

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

variant of 盍[he2]

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磕

kē

HSK 7

石(stone)

to tap or knock

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嗑

kè

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口(mouth)

to crack (seeds) between one's teeth

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溘

kè

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氵(water)

suddenly

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瞌

kē

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目(eye)

used in 瞌睡[ke1 shui4]

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蓋

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艹(plants)

—

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闔

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門(door)

—

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阖

hé

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门(door)

door; to close

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