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:

遂

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7

遂 (suí)

used in 半身不遂[ban4 shen1 bu4 sui2]; Taiwan pr. [sui4]

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (遂)

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

2 Active Tones

Tone 2suí

Tone 4suì

Family Characters (3)

Root: 遂

遂

suí

HSK 7

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

used in 半身不遂[ban4 shen1 bu4 sui2]; Taiwan pr. [sui4]

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隧

suì

HSK 7

阝(city)

tunnel; underground passage

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燧

suì

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火(fire)

(bound form) material or tool used to light a fire by means of friction or the sun's rays; (bound form) beacon fire (alarm signal in border regions), esp. one lit during daytime to produce smoke

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