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:
口
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
口 (kǒu)
mouth
7
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (口)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 3kǒu
Tone 4kòu
Tone 5
Family Characters (7)
Root: 口口
kǒu
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
mouth