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:
卒
16
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (卒)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1sū
Tone 2zú
Tone 4suì
Family Characters (16)
Root: 卒卒
zú
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
variant of 卒[zu2]