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:
⺮
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
⺮ (zhú)
"bamboo" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 118)
2
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (⺮)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2zhú
Tone 4shì
Family Characters (2)
Root: ⺮⺮
zhú
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
"bamboo" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 118)