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:
奏
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 6
奏 (zòu)
to play music, achieve, or present a memorial
7
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (奏)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 4zòu
Tone 5
Family Characters (7)
Root: 奏奏
zòu
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to play music, achieve, or present a memorial