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:
九
14
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (九)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1jiū
Tone 2chóu
Tone 3jiǔ
Tone 4xù
Tone 5
Family Characters (14)
Root: 九九
jiǔ
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
nine