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:
刘
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (刘)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2liú
Family Characters (2)
Root: 刘刘
liú
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Liu, to kill, battle-ax