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:
八
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
八 (bā)
eight
5
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (八)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1bā
Tone 4bàn
Family Characters (5)
Root: 八八
bā
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
eight