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:

霜

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7

霜 (shuāng)

frost

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (霜)

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

2 Active Tones

Tone 1shuāng

Tone 5

Family Characters (6)

Root: 霜

霜

shuāng

HSK 7

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

frost

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孀

shuāng

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女(woman)

widow

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驦

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馬(horse)

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骦

shuāng

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马(horse)

used in 驌驦|骕骦[su4 shuang1]

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鸘

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鳥(bird)

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鹴

shuāng

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鸟(bird)

used in 鷫鸘|鹔鹴[su4 shuang1]

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