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:
堂
6
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (堂)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1chēng
Tone 2táng
Tone 3chěng
Family Characters (6)
Root: 堂堂
táng
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
hall, large room, main hall