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:
伏
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
伏 (fú)
to lean over, lie in ambush, submit
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (伏)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2fú
Family Characters (2)
Root: 伏伏
fú
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to lean over, lie in ambush, submit