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:
坐
8
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (坐)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 2cuó
Tone 3cuǒ
Tone 4zuò
Tone 5
Family Characters (8)
Root: 坐坐
zuò
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to sit