HanziGuru.Radicals Explorer
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:
右
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1

右 (yòu)

right

2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (右)

How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:

1 Active Tones
Tone 4yòu

Family Characters (2)

Root: 右
右
yòu
HSK 1
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

right

佑
yòu
HSK 7

(bound form) to bless; to protect

右 (yòu) Family — 佑… | HanziGuru