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:
客
5
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (客)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1kā
Tone 2é
Tone 4kè
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 客客
kè
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
customer; visitor; guest