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:
取
5
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (取)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1zōu
Tone 3qǔ
Tone 4qù
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 取取
qǔ
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to take