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:
喿
9
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (喿)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1cāo
Tone 3zǎo
Tone 4sào
Tone 5
Family Characters (9)
Root: 喿喿
sào
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
chirping of birds