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:
卬
4
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (卬)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2áng
Tone 4yì
Family Characters (4)
Root: 卬卬
áng
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Ang; I (regional colloquial)