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:
充
6
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (充)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1chōng
Tone 3tǒng
Tone 4chòng
Tone 5
Family Characters (6)
Root: 充充
chōng
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
sufficient; full; to fill