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:
尺
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4
尺 (chě)
a musical note in gongche notation / traditional Chinese foot (unit of length)
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (尺)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2chí
Tone 3chě
Family Characters (4)
Root: 尺尺
chě
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
a musical note in gongche notation / traditional Chinese foot (unit of length)