Phonetic Families & Components

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Decode Chinese characters by their shared sound roots and see how semantic radicals split their meanings across tones.

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邁

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7

邁 (mài)

to take a step

Family Characters

HSK Words

Attested pronunciation fan-out across tone columns

Phonetic Root邁mài

Tone 10

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Tone 20

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Tone 30

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Tone 42

Tone 4· mài

2 Family Characters

邁màiHSK 7to take a step

辶

萬

chuò · walking · meaningstructure

邁

mài · to take a step

邁 is the root itself

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