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:
多
6
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (多)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1duō
Tone 5
Family Characters (6)
Root: 多多
duō
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
many, much, more