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:
党
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 6
党 (dǎng)
party, association, club, society, or surname Dang
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (党)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 3dǎng
Family Characters (3)
Root: 党党
dǎng
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
party, association, club, society, or surname Dang