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:
左
3
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (左)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3zuǒ
Tone 4duò
Family Characters (3)
Root: 左左
zuǒ
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
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