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:

雚

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

雚 (guàn)

(archaic) stork; heron

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HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (雚)

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

4 Active Tones

Tone 1huān

Tone 2quán

Tone 4guàn

Tone 5

Family Characters (12)

Root: 雚

雚

guàn

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

(archaic) stork; heron

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权

quán

HSK 4

木(tree)

power, authority, right

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灌

guàn

HSK 7

氵(water)

to pour, to irrigate

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罐

guàn

HSK 7

缶(pottery jar)

can, jar, pot

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勸

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力(power)

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權

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木(tree)

—

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歡

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欠(yawn)

—

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獾

huān

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犭(dog)

variant of 獾[huan1]

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觀

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見(see)

—

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颧

quán

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页(head)

cheek bones

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顴

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頁(head)

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鹳

guàn

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鸟(bird)

crane; stork

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