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:
坴
5
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (坴)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2kuí
Tone 4lù
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 坴坴
lù
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
a clod of earth; land