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.

Popular Roots:

鉤

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7

鉤 (gōu)

hook

Family Characters

HSK Words

Attested pronunciation fan-out across tone columns

Phonetic Root鉤gōu

Tone 12

Tone 20

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Tone 30

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Tone 40

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Tone 1· gōu

2 Family Characters

鉤gōuHSK 7hook

釒

A metal 釒 hook 句; 句 also provides the pronunciation · meaning

句

structure

鉤

gōu · hook

鉤 is the root itself

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