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:
姑
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (姑)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 1gū
Family Characters (2)
Root: 姑姑
gū
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
paternal aunt