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:

荅

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

荅 (dā)

variant of 答[da1]

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (荅)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 1dā

Tone 3tǎ

Tone 5da

Family Characters (6)

Root: 荅

荅

dā

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

variant of 答[da1]

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塔

tǎ

HSK 6

土(earth)

old variant of 塔[ta3]

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搭

dā

HSK 6

扌(hand)

to put up; to build (scaffolding)

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瘩

HSK 6

疒(sickness)

used in 疙瘩[ge1 da5]

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嗒

dā

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口(mouth)

(onom.) used in words that describe machine gunfire, the ticking of a clock or the clatter of horse hooves etc

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褡

dā

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衤(clothes)

pouch; sleeveless jacket

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