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:
匡
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
匡 (kuāng)
surname Kuang; (literary) to rectify
7
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (匡)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1kuāng
Tone 4kuàng
Tone 5
Family Characters (7)
Root: 匡匡
kuāng
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Kuang; (literary) to rectify