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:
从
9
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (从)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1cōng
Tone 2cóng
Tone 3sǒng
Tone 4zòng
Tone 5
Family Characters (9)
Root: 从从
cóng
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
variant of 從|从[cong2]