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:
射
5
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (射)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 4shè
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 射射
shè
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
old variant of 射[she4]