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:
⺌
6
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (⺌)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 3suǒ
Tone 4xiào
Tone 5
Family Characters (6)
Root: ⺌⺌
Expansion
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
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