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:
国
4
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (国)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1guāi
Tone 2guó
Family Characters (4)
Root: 国国
guó
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
country
蝈
guō
Expansionsmall green cicada or frog (meaning unclear, possibly onom.); see 蟈蟈|蝈蝈 long-horned grasshopper