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:
务
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
务 (wù)
affair, business, matter, to be engaged in, to attend to, by all means
3
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (务)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 4wù
Tone 5
Family Characters (3)
Root: 务务
wù
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
affair, business, matter, to be engaged in, to attend to, by all means