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:

豦

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

豦 (qú)

a wild boar; to fight

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Tone Fan-out (豦)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 2qú

Tone 4jù

Tone 5

Family Characters (7)

Root: 豦

豦

qú

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

a wild boar; to fight

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劇

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刂(knife)

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噱

jué

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口(mouth)

loud laughter

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據

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扌(hand)

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璩

qú

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王(jade)

surname Qu; (jade ring)

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遽

jù

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辶(walking)

hurry; fast

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醵

jù

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酉(wine vessel)

to contribute to a feast; to pool (money)

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