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:
屈
5
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (屈)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1qū
Tone 2jué
Family Characters (5)
Root: 屈屈
qū
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
bent, to feel wronged, surname Qu