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:
勇
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (勇)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3yǒng
Tone 5
Family Characters (2)
Root: 勇勇
yǒng
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
brave