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:
与
3
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (与)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2yú
Tone 3yǔ
Tone 4yù
Family Characters (3)
Root: 与与
yù
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to take part in