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:
乇
5
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (乇)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1tuō
Tone 2zhái
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 乇乇
tuō
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
old variant of 托[tuo1]
吒
zhā
Expansionused for the sound "zha" in the names of certain legendary figures (e.g. 哪吒[Ne2 zha1]); Taiwan pr. [zha4]