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:

累

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1

累 (léi)

rope

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Tone Fan-out (累)

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

4 Active Tones

Tone 2léi

Tone 3luǒ

Tone 4luò

Tone 5

Family Characters (9)

Root: 累

累

léi

HSK 1

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

rope

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螺

luó

HSK 7

虫(insect)

spiral shell, snail, conch

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嫘

léi

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女(woman)

surname Lei

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漯

luò

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氵(water)

used in 漯河[Luo4 he2], a city in Henan

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瘰

luǒ

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疒(sickness)

used in 瘰癧|瘰疬[luo3 li4]

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缧

léi

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纟(silk)

(literary) thick rope used to restrain a prisoner

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镙

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钅(metal)

—

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騾

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馬(horse)

—

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骡

luó

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马(horse)

mule

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