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:
去
7
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (去)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1qū
Tone 2jié
Tone 3fǎ
Tone 4qù
Family Characters (7)
Root: 去去
qù
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to go