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:
同
14
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (同)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 2tóng
Tone 3tǒng
Tone 4dòng
Tone 5
Family Characters (14)
Root: 同同
tóng
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
same