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:
下
3
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (下)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2há
Tone 4xià
Family Characters (3)
Root: 下下
xià
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
down