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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鬲

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

鬲 (gé)

surname Ge; earthen pot

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (鬲)

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

1 Active Tones

Tone 2gé

Family Characters (7)

Root: 鬲

鬲

gé

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

surname Ge; earthen pot

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隔

gé

HSK 4

阝(city)

to separate

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嗝

gé

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口(mouth)

hiccup; belch

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塥

gé

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土(earth)

dry clay lump

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翮

hé

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羽(feather)

quill

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膈

gé

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⺼(meat)

diaphragm (anatomy)

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镉

gé

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钅(metal)

cadmium (chemistry)

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