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:

雍

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

雍 (yōng)

surname Yong; harmony

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Tone Fan-out (雍)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 1yōng

Tone 4wèng

Tone 5

Family Characters (7)

Root: 雍

雍

yōng

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

surname Yong; harmony

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壅

yōng

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土(earth)

to obstruct; to stop up

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擁

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扌(hand)

—

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甕

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瓦(tile)

—

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臃

yōng

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⺼(meat)

see 臃腫|臃肿[yong1 zhong3]

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蕹

wèng

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艹(plants)

water spinach or ong choy (Ipomoea aquatica), used as a vegetable in south China and southeast Asia; Taiwan pr. [yong1]

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饔

yōng

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食(food)

(literary) cooked food; breakfast

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