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:

秋

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2

秋 (qiū)

old variant of 秋[qiu1]

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Tone Fan-out (秋)

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

4 Active Tones

Tone 1qiū

Tone 2chóu

Tone 3chǒu

Tone 5

Family Characters (15)

Root: 秋

秋

qiū

HSK 2

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

old variant of 秋[qiu1]

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愁

chóu

HSK 5

心(heart)

to worry about

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揪

jiū

HSK 7

扌(hand)

to seize, clutch, or grab firmly and pull

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瞅

chǒu

HSK 7

目(eye)

to look at

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啾

jiū

Expansion

口(mouth)

(onom.) wailing of child; chirp

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愀

qiǎo

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忄(heart)

change countenance; worry

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楸

qiū

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木(tree)

Catalpa; Mallotus japonicus

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湫

jiǎo

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氵(water)

marsh

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鍬

Expansion

釒(metal)

—

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锹

qiāo

Expansion

钅(metal)

variant of 鍬|锹[qiao1]

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鞦

Expansion

革(raw leather)

—

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鬏

jiū

Expansion

髟(long hair)

bun (of hair)

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鳅

qiū

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鱼(fish)

loach (family Cobitidae); used in 鯕鰍|鲯鳅[qi2 qiu1] (mahi-mahi, a fish unrelated to the loaches)

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鶖

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鳥(bird)

—

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鹙

qiū

Expansion

鸟(bird)

see 鶖鷺|鹙鹭[qiu1 lu4]

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