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:
处
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (处)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3chǔ
Tone 4jiù
Family Characters (2)
Root: 处处
chǔ
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to reside, to deal with, place