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:
亭
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (亭)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2tíng
Family Characters (4)
Root: 亭亭
tíng
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
pavilion