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:
争
9
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (争)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1zhēng
Tone 4jìng
Tone 5
Family Characters (9)
Root: 争争
zhēng
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to strive for