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:
光
7
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (光)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1guāng
Tone 3huǎng
Family Characters (7)
Root: 光光
guāng
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
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