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:
凶
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (凶)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1xiōng
Tone 3nǎo
Family Characters (4)
Root: 凶凶
xiōng
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
terrible, fierce, fierce omen