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:
夏
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (夏)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2á
Tone 4xià
Tone 5
Family Characters (4)
Root: 夏夏
xià
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
summer