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:
冈
5
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (冈)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 1gāng
Family Characters (5)
Root: 冈冈
gāng
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
ridge