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:
大
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
大 (dà)
big, large, great
7
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (大)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1dā
Tone 2dá
Tone 4dà
Tone 5
Family Characters (7)
Root: 大大
dà
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
big, large, great