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:
余
13
Family Characters
6
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (余)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2yú
Tone 4xù
Tone 5
Family Characters (13)
Root: 余余
yú
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Yu; (literary) I; me