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:
勾
4
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (勾)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1gōu
Tone 4gòu
Family Characters (4)
Root: 勾勾
gōu
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Gou; to attract