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:

龹

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

龹 ()

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Tone Fan-out (龹)

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

4 Active Tones

Tone 2quán

Tone 3xiǎng

Tone 4quàn

Tone 5

Family Characters (11)

Root: 龹

龹

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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

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券

quàn

HSK 6

刀(knife)

ticket, voucher, certificate

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拳

quán

HSK 7

手(hand)

fist

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劵

juàn

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力(power)

old variant of 倦[juan4]

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弮

juàn

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弓(bow)

variant of 卷[juan4], curled up scroll

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桊

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木(tree)

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眷

juàn

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目(eye)

(bound form) one's family, esp. wife and children; (literary) to regard with love and affection; to feel concern for

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誊

téng

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言(speech)

to transcribe; to copy out

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豢

huàn

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豕(pig)

to rear; to raise (animals)

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飬

juàn

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食(food)

old variant of 餋[juan4]

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鲞

xiǎng

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鱼(fish)

dried fish

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