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:
乎
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4
乎 (hū)
in, at, from, or interrogative particle
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (乎)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 1hū
Family Characters (4)
Root: 乎乎
hū
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
in, at, from, or interrogative particle