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:
垂
11
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (垂)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 2chuí
Tone 3duǒ
Tone 4shuì
Tone 5
Family Characters (11)
Root: 垂垂
chuí
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to hang down