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:
入
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
入 (rù)
to enter; to go into
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (入)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1cuān
Tone 4rù
Family Characters (2)
Root: 入入
rù
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to enter; to go into