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:
匊
5
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (匊)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1jū
Tone 2jú
Family Characters (5)
Root: 匊匊
jū
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
variant of 掬[ju1]