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:
上
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
上 (shǎng)
shǎng (upper/rising tone in Chinese phonology)
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (上)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3shǎng
Tone 4ràng
Family Characters (2)
Root: 上上
shǎng
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
shǎng (upper/rising tone in Chinese phonology)