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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:
罒
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

罒 (wǎng)

net (Kangxi radical 122)

6
Family Characters
1
HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (罒)

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

5 Active Tones
Tone 1hōng
Tone 2léng
Tone 3wǎng
Tone 4lèng
Tone 5

Family Characters (6)

Root: 罒
罒
wǎng
Expansion
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

net (Kangxi radical 122)

愣
lèng
HSK 7

to look distracted, blank, or rash

塄
léng
Expansion

elevated bank around a field

楞
léng
Expansion

variant of 稜|棱[leng2]; used in 楞迦[Leng2 jia1]

薨
hōng
Expansion

death of a prince; swarming

罒 (wǎng) Family — 愣, 塄, 楞, 眾… | HanziGuru