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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禺

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

禺 (ǒu)

old variant of 偶[ou3]

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Tone Fan-out (禺)

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

4 Active Tones

Tone 2yú

Tone 3ǒu

Tone 4yù

Tone 5

Family Characters (9)

Root: 禺

禺

ǒu

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

old variant of 偶[ou3]

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遇

yù

HSK 4

辶(walking)

encounter, meet, happen upon, treat, surname Yu

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偶

ǒu

HSK 5

亻(person)

accidental, image, pair, mate

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寓

yù

HSK 7

宀(roof)

to reside

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愚

yú

HSK 7

心(heart)

to be stupid; to cheat or deceive

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喁

yóng

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口(mouth)

(literary) (of a fish) to stick its mouth out of the water

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耦

ǒu

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耒(plow)

a pair; a mate

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隅

yú

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阝(city)

corner

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齵

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齒(tooth)

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