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:

龙

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3

龙 (lóng)

Chinese dragon; loong

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (龙)

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

3 Active Tones

Tone 1shuāng

Tone 2lóng

Tone 3chǒng

Family Characters (16)

Root: 龙

龙

lóng

HSK 3

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

Chinese dragon; loong

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宠

chǒng

HSK 6

宀(roof)

to pamper

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咙

lóng

HSK 7

口(mouth)

throat

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垄

lǒng

HSK 7

土(earth)

ridge between fields

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拢

lǒng

HSK 7

扌(hand)

to gather together, to approach

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笼

lóng

HSK 7

⺮(bamboo)

cage, basket, steamer basket

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聋

lóng

HSK 7

耳(ear)

deaf

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胧

lóng

HSK 7

月(moon)

dim, hazy, obscure

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垅

lǒng

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土(earth)

old variant of 壟|垄[long3]

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栊

lóng

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木(tree)

(literary) window; (literary) cage for animals

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泷

shuāng

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氵(water)

Shuang river in Hunan and Guangdong (modern Wu river 武水)

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珑

lóng

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王(jade)

tinkling of gem-pendants

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眬

lóng

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目(eye)

used in 矇矓|蒙眬[meng2 long2]

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砻

lóng

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石(stone)

(dialect) tool used to hull rice (similar to a grain mill); (dialect) to hull rice using this tool

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茏

lóng

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艹(plants)

Polygonum posumbu

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陇

lǒng

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阝(city)

short name for Gansu province 甘肅省|甘肃省[Gan1 su4 Sheng3]

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