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:
尤
8
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (尤)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1yōu
Tone 2yóu
Tone 3rǎo
Tone 5
Family Characters (8)
Root: 尤尤
yóu
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
particularly, especially