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.

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隹

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

隹 (zhuī)

short-tailed bird

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (隹)

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

5 Active Tones

Tone 1zhuī

Tone 2shéi

Tone 3zhǔn

Tone 4zhì

Tone 5

Family Characters (27)

Root: 隹

隹

zhuī

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

short-tailed bird

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准

zhǔn

HSK 1

冫(ice)

to allow, to grant, in accordance with, standard

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谁

shéi

HSK 1

讠(speech)

who

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推

tuī

HSK 2

扌(hand)

to push

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维

wéi

HSK 4

纟(silk)

to maintain, preserve, dimension

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堆

duī

HSK 5

土(earth)

pile up, heap, stack

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椎

chuí

HSK 6

木(tree)

hammer; mallet (variant of 槌[chui2]); variant of 捶[chui2]

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稚

zhì

HSK 7

禾(grain)

infantile

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倠

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亻(person)

—

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帷

wéi

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巾(cloth)

curtain; screen

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擢

zhuó

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扌(hand)

to pull out; to select

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槜

zuì

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木(tree)

see 槜李[zui4 li3]; see 槜李[Zui4 li3]

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淮

huái

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氵(water)

name of a river

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濯

zhào

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氵(water)

variant of 櫂|棹[zhao4]

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睢

suī

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目(eye)

surname Sui; to stare

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碓

duì

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石(stone)

pestle; pound with a pestle

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維

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糹(thread)

—

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萑

huán

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艹(plants)

a kind of reed

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誰

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言(speech)

—

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進

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辶(walking)

—

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錐

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釒(metal)

—

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锥

zhuī

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钅(metal)

cone; awl

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隻

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又(right hand)

—

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雖

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+ 隹

—

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雜

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+ 隹

—

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騅

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馬(horse)

—

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骓

zhuī

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马(horse)

surname Zhui; (literary) piebald horse

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