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:
乏
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (乏)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1biān
Tone 2fá
Tone 4fàn
Tone 5
Family Characters (4)
Root: 乏乏
fá
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
short of, tired