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:
刀
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3
刀 (dāo)
knife
4
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (刀)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1dāo
Tone 4shào
Family Characters (4)
Root: 刀刀
dāo
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
knife