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:

肖

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7

肖 (xiào)

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Tone Fan-out (肖)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 1xiāo

Tone 4xiào

Tone 5

Family Characters (23)

Root: 肖

肖

xiào

HSK 7

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

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消

xiāo

HSK 3

氵(water)

to diminish, consume, or disappear

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销

xiāo

HSK 4

钅(metal)

to melt, to cancel, to sell, to spend

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悄

qiāo

HSK 5

忄(heart)

quietly, secretly

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峭

qiào

HSK 6

山(mountain)

precipitous, steep, severe

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削

xiāo

HSK 7

刂(knife)

to peel with a knife

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哨

shào

HSK 7

口(mouth)

a whistle, sentry

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宵

xiāo

HSK 7

宀(roof)

night

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屑

xiè

HSK 7

尸(body)

bits, fragments, crumbs, trifling

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捎

shāo

HSK 7

扌(hand)

to bring sth to sb

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梢

shāo

HSK 7

木(tree)

tip of branch

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硝

xiāo

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石(stone)

saltpeter; to tan (leather)

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筲

shāo

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⺮(bamboo)

pot-scrubbing brush made of bamboo strips; basket (container) for chopsticks

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绡

xiāo

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纟(silk)

raw silk

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艄

shāo

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舟(boat)

stern of boat

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蛸

shāo

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虫(insect)

long-legged spider

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誚

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言(speech)

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诮

qiào

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讠(speech)

ridicule; to blame

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趙

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走(run)

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逍

xiāo

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辶(walking)

used in 逍遙|逍遥[xiao1 yao2]

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銷

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釒(metal)

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鞘

qiào

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革(raw leather)

scabbard; sheath

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魈

xiāo

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鬼(ghost)

used in 山魈[shan1 xiao1]

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