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:
刷
3
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (刷)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1shuā
Tone 4shuàn
Family Characters (3)
Root: 刷刷
shuā
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to brush, to scrub, to swipe
涮
shuàn
HSK 7to rinse, to trick, or to cook by dipping finely sliced ingredients briefly in boiling water or soup