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:
何
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (何)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2hé
Family Characters (2)
Root: 何何
hé
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
what, how, why, which