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:
丘
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
丘 (qiū)
hillock; mound (variant of 丘[qiu1])
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (丘)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 1qiū
Family Characters (2)
Root: 丘丘
qiū
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
hillock; mound (variant of 丘[qiu1])