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:

蒦

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

蒦 (huò)

(archaic) to measure

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Tone Fan-out (蒦)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 1huō

Tone 4huò

Tone 5

Family Characters (10)

Root: 蒦

蒦

huò

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

(archaic) to measure

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劐

huō

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刂(knife)

(coll.) to slit with a knife; (variant of 耠[huo1]) hoe

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嚄

huò

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口(mouth)

(interj.) oh!

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獲

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犭(dog)

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穫

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禾(grain)

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蠖

huò

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虫(insect)

looper caterpillar

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護

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言(speech)

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镬

huò

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钅(metal)

wok (dialect); cauldron (old)

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鑊

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釒(metal)

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鹱

hù

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鸟(bird)

(bound form) bird of the Procellariidae family, which includes shearwaters, gadfly petrels etc

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