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:
勿
8
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (勿)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1hū
Tone 2hú
Tone 3wěn
Tone 4wù
Family Characters (8)
Root: 勿勿
wù
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
do not