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:

睪

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

睪 (yì)

to spy out

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (睪)

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

2 Active Tones

Tone 4yì

Tone 5

Family Characters (9)

Root: 睪

睪

yì

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

to spy out

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释

shì

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釆(distinguish)

to explain, to release, Buddha

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峄

yì

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山(mountain)

name of hills in Shandong

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嶧

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山(mountain)

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擇

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扌(hand)

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澤

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氵(water)

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繹

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糹(thread)

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釋

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釆(distinguish)

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驛

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馬(horse)

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