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:
复
5
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (复)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4fù
Family Characters (5)
Root: 复复
fù
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to repeat, complex, double