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:
剌
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
剌 (lá)
variant of 拉[la2] (Note: 剌 was the character used prior to simplification and remains the standard in Taiwan, while in mainland China, 拉 has replaced 剌)
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (剌)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2lá
Tone 3lǎ
Tone 4lài
Family Characters (4)
Root: 剌剌
lá
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
variant of 拉[la2] (Note: 剌 was the character used prior to simplification and remains the standard in Taiwan, while in mainland China, 拉 has replaced 剌)