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:
化
7
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (化)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1huā
Tone 2huá
Tone 4huò
Tone 5
Family Characters (7)
Root: 化化
huā
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
variant of 花[hua1]