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:
孟
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
孟 (mèng)
surname Meng; first month of a season
7
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (孟)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 3měng
Tone 4mèng
Tone 5
Family Characters (7)
Root: 孟孟
mèng
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Meng; first month of a season
勐
měng
Expansionmeng (old administrative division in Dai areas of Yunnan); variant of 猛[meng3]