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:
丩
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (丩)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1jiū
Tone 4jiào
Family Characters (4)
Root: 丩丩
jiū
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
old variant of 糾|纠[jiu1]