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:
宿
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (宿)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1suō
Tone 4sù
Tone 5
Family Characters (4)
Root: 宿宿
sù
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
lodge for the night, old, former