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:
蜀
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
蜀 (shǔ)
short name for Sichuan 四川[Si4 chuan1] province; one of the Three Kingdoms 三國|三国[San1 guo2] after the Han dynasty, also called 蜀漢|蜀汉[Shu3 Han4], situated around what is now Sichuan province
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Family Characters
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HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (蜀)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1juān
Tone 2zhuó
Tone 3shǔ
Tone 5
Family Characters (8)
Root: 蜀蜀
shǔ
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
short name for Sichuan 四川[Si4 chuan1] province; one of the Three Kingdoms 三國|三国[San1 guo2] after the Han dynasty, also called 蜀漢|蜀汉[Shu3 Han4], situated around what is now Sichuan province