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:
咎
2
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (咎)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3guǐ
Tone 4jiù
Family Characters (2)
Root: 咎咎
jiù
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
fault; to blame