HanziGuru.Radicals Explorer
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:
互
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3

互 (hù)

mutual

2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (互)

How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:

1 Active Tones
Tone 4hù

Family Characters (2)

Root: 互
互
hù
HSK 3
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

mutual

冱
hù
Expansion

congealed; frozen

互 (hù) Family — 冱… | HanziGuru