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:
到
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (到)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3dǎo
Tone 4dào
Family Characters (2)
Root: 到到
dào
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to reach; to arrive