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:

翁

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7

翁 (wēng)

Elderly man / Father-in-law

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HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (翁)

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

2 Active Tones

Tone 1wēng

Tone 3wěng

Family Characters (6)

Root: 翁

翁

wēng

HSK 7

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

Elderly man / Father-in-law

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嗡

wēng

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口(mouth)

(onom.) buzz; hum

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塕

wěng

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土(earth)

flying dust (dialect); dust

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暡

wěng

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日(sun)

used in 暡曚[weng3 meng2]

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蓊

wěng

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艹(plants)

luxuriant vegetation

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螉

wēng

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虫(insect)

see 蠮螉[ye1 weng1]

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