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:
亢
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
亢 (kàng)
surname Kang; Kang, one of the 28 constellations
14
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (亢)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1kēng
Tone 2háng
Tone 4kàng
Tone 5
Family Characters (14)
Root: 亢亢
kàng
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Kang; Kang, one of the 28 constellations