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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粦

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

粦 ()

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Tone Fan-out (粦)

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

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Tone 2lín

Tone 5

Family Characters (13)

Root: 粦

粦

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

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嶙

lín

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山(mountain)

ranges of hills

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憐

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忄(heart)

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瞵

lín

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目(eye)

to stare at

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磷

lín

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石(stone)

variant of 磷[lin2]

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粼

lín

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巛(river)

clear (as of water)

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辚

lín

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车(car)

rumbling of wheels

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遴

lín

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辶(walking)

surname Lin; (literary) to select

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鄰

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阝(city)

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驎

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馬(horse)

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鱗

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魚(fish)

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鳞

lín

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鱼(fish)

scales (of fish, snakes etc)

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麟

lín

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鹿(deer)

variant of 麟[lin2]

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