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:
君
6
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (君)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1jūn
Tone 2qún
Tone 3jiǒng
Tone 4jùn
Family Characters (6)
Root: 君君
jūn
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
monarch; lord