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:
丑
9
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (丑)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1niū
Tone 3chǒu
Tone 5
Family Characters (9)
Root: 丑丑
chǒu
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
clown, 2nd earthly branch (Ox)