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:
井
5
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (井)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1gēng
Tone 3jǐng
Tone 4jìn
Family Characters (5)
Root: 井井
jǐng
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
well