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:
工
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
工 (gōng)
work
24
Family Characters
14
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (工)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1gōng
Tone 2hóng
Tone 3gǒng
Tone 4xiàng
Tone 5
Family Characters (24)
Root: 工工
gōng
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
work