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:
乐
7
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (乐)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4lè
Family Characters (7)
Root: 乐乐
lè
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
happy, cheerful, music