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:
家
5
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (家)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1jiā
Tone 4jià
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 家家
jiā
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
home, family, household