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:
巢
4
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (巢)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1chāo
Tone 2cháo
Tone 5
Family Characters (4)
Root: 巢巢
cháo
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
nest