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:
在
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
在 (zài)
at, in, on, to exist, indicating an ongoing action
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (在)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2chá
Tone 4zài
Family Characters (2)
Root: 在在
zài
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
at, in, on, to exist, indicating an ongoing action