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:
就
4
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (就)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 4jiù
Tone 5
Family Characters (4)
Root: 就就
jiù
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
then, at once, right away, just