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:
军
10
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (军)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1jūn
Tone 2hún
Tone 4hùn
Family Characters (10)
Root: 军军
jūn
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
army, military