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:

童

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4

童 (tóng)

child

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HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (童)

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

5 Active Tones

Tone 1chōng

Tone 2tóng

Tone 3tuǎn

Tone 4zhuàng

Tone 5

Family Characters (9)

Root: 童

童

tóng

HSK 4

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

child

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撞

zhuàng

HSK 5

扌(hand)

to bump into

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幢

chuáng

HSK 7

巾(cloth)

banner, pennant, classifier for buildings

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憧

chōng

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忄(heart)

used in 憧憬[chong1 jing3]; used in 憧憧[chong1 chong1]

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潼

tóng

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氵(water)

high; name of a pass

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疃

tuǎn

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田(field)

village; animal track

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瞳

tóng

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目(eye)

pupil of the eye

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艟

chōng

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舟(boat)

used in 艨艟[meng2 chong1]; Taiwan pr. [tong2]

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鐘

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釒(metal)

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