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:
小
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
小 (xiǎo)
small
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (小)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 3xiǎo
Tone 4xiàn
Tone 5
Family Characters (3)
Root: 小小
xiǎo
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
small