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:
云
9
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (云)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2yún
Tone 4yùn
Tone 5
Family Characters (9)
Root: 云云
yún
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to say