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:
公
13
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (公)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1gōng
Tone 2yán
Tone 4sòng
Tone 5
Family Characters (13)
Root: 公公
gōng
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
public, fair, male (animal)