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:
中
11
Family Characters
7
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (中)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1zhōng
Tone 2chóng
Tone 3zhǒng
Tone 4zhòng
Tone 5
Family Characters (11)
Root: 中中
zhòng
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to hit (a target)