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:
如
6
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (如)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2rú
Tone 4shù
Family Characters (6)
Root: 如如
rú
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
as, like, such as