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:

达

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3

达 (dá)

to reach, to attain, to communicate

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Tone Fan-out (达)

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

4 Active Tones

Tone 1dā

Tone 2dá

Tone 4tà

Tone 5da

Family Characters (7)

Root: 达

达

dá

HSK 3

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

to reach, to attain, to communicate

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哒

dā

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口(mouth)

(phonetic); command to a horse

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垯

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土(earth)

used in 圪墶|圪垯[ge1 da5]

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挞

tà

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扌(hand)

(bound form) to whip; to flog; (loanword) (pastry) tart (colloquial pr. [ta3])

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跶

dā

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足(foot)

to stumble; to slip

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闼

tà

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门(door)

door of an inner room

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鞑

dá

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革(raw leather)

Tartar; a tribe in China

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