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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臾

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

臾 (yú)

surname Yu; a moment

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Tone Fan-out (臾)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 2yú

Tone 3yǔ

Tone 5

Family Characters (7)

Root: 臾

臾

yú

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

surname Yu; a moment

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庾

yǔ

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广(shelter)

surname Yu; name of a mountain

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瘐

yǔ

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疒(sickness)

to maltreat (as prisoners)

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腴

yú

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⺼(meat)

fat on belly; fertile

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萸

yú

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艹(plants)

used in 茱萸[zhu1 yu2]

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谀

yú

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讠(speech)

to flatter

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諛

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言(speech)

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