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:
巂
3
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (巂)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1guī
Tone 5
Family Characters (3)
Root: 巂巂
guī
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
cuckoo; revolution of a wheel