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:
囊
5
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (囊)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1nāng
Tone 2náng
Tone 3nǎng
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 囊囊
náng
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
sack; purse