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:
兔
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (兔)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4tù
Family Characters (3)
Root: 兔兔
tù
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
variant of 兔[tu4]
菟
tù
Expansiondodder (Cuscuta sinensis, a parasitic vine with seeds having medicinal uses); also called 菟絲子|菟丝子