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:
夋
16
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (夋)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1suō
Tone 4jùn
Tone 5
Family Characters (16)
Root: 夋夋
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Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
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