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:
久
5
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (久)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 3jiǔ
Tone 4jiù
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 久久
jiǔ
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
long (time)