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:

菐

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

菐 (pú)

thicket; tedious

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Tone Fan-out (菐)

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

4 Active Tones

Tone 1pū

Tone 2pú

Tone 3pǔ

Tone 5

Family Characters (10)

Root: 菐

菐

pú

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

thicket; tedious

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僕

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亻(person)

—

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噗

pū

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口(mouth)

(onom.) pop; plop

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幞

fú

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巾(cloth)

used in 幞頭|幞头[fu2 tou2]; variant of 袱[fu2]

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撲

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扌(hand)

—

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樸

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木(tree)

—

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璞

pú

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王(jade)

unpolished gem

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蹼

pǔ

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足(foot)

web (of feet of ducks, frogs etc)

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醭

bú

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酉(wine vessel)

mold on liquids

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镤

pú

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钅(metal)

protactinium (chemistry)

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