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:
发
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
发 (fā)
to send out, to issue, to develop, hair (when used in compound words like 头发)
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (发)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1fā
Tone 2bó
Tone 4fèi
Family Characters (4)
Root: 发发
fā
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to send out, to issue, to develop, hair (when used in compound words like 头发)