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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:
号
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1

号 (háo)

roar

4
Family Characters
1
HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (号)

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

3 Active Tones
Tone 1xiāo
Tone 2háo
Tone 5

Family Characters (4)

Root: 号
号
háo
HSK 1
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

roar

枵
xiāo
Expansion

(archaic) hollow of a tree; (literary) empty; hollow

鸮
xiāo
Expansion

owl (order Strigiformes)

号 (háo) Family — 枵, 鴞, 鸮… | HanziGuru