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:
亡
10
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (亡)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1huāng
Tone 2wáng
Tone 3wǎng
Tone 4wàng
Tone 5
Family Characters (10)
Root: 亡亡
wáng
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to die, to lose, to flee