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:
仓
13
Family Characters
7
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (仓)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1cāng
Tone 4chuàng
Family Characters (13)
Root: 仓仓
cāng
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
granary
炝
qiàng
Expansionto briefly boil (a vegetable etc), then dress with soy sauce, oil, vinegar etc; to briefly stir-fry (meat, chopped spring onions etc), then add to other ingredients and cook further