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:
察
6
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (察)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1cā
Tone 2chá
Tone 3chǎ
Tone 5
Family Characters (6)
Root: 察察
chá
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
variant of 察[cha2]