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:

票

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1

票 (piào)

ticket

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HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (票)

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

5 Active Tones

Tone 1piāo

Tone 2piáo

Tone 3piǎo

Tone 4piào

Tone 5

Family Characters (22)

Root: 票

票

piào

HSK 1

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

ticket

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漂

piāo

HSK 2

氵(water)

to float

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标

biāo

HSK 3

木(tree)

mark, sign, target

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飘

piāo

HSK 7

风(wind)

variant of 飄|飘[piao1]

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剽

piāo

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刂(knife)

to rob; swift

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嘌

piào

Expansion

口(mouth)

(literary) fast; speedy

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嫖

piáo

Expansion

女(woman)

to visit a prostitute

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摽

biāo

Expansion

扌(hand)

(literary) to wave away; to discard

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標

Expansion

木(tree)

—

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瓢

piáo

Expansion

瓜(melon)

dipper; ladle

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瘭

biāo

Expansion

疒(sickness)

whitlow

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瞟

piǎo

Expansion

目(eye)

to cast a glance

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縹

Expansion

糹(silk)

—

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缥

piāo

Expansion

纟(silk)

used in 縹渺|缥渺[piao1 miao3]; Taiwan pr. [piao3]

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膘

biāo

Expansion

⺼(meat)

(usu. of livestock) fat

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螵

piāo

Expansion

虫(insect)

used in 螵蛸[piao1 xiao1]

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鏢

Expansion

釒(metal)

—

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镖

biāo

Expansion

钅(metal)

dart-like throwing weapon; goods sent under the protection of an armed escort

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飄

Expansion

風(wind)

—

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骠

piào

Expansion

马(horse)

white horse

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鰾

Expansion

魚(fish)

—

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鳔

biào

Expansion

鱼(fish)

swim bladder; air bladder of fish

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