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:
邕
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
邕 (yōng)
Yong River (Guangxi); short name for Nanning (Guangxi)
2
Family Characters
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HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (邕)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1yōng
Tone 5
Family Characters (2)
Root: 邕邕
yōng
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
Yong River (Guangxi); short name for Nanning (Guangxi)