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:
巧
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (巧)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3qiǎo
Tone 4qiào
Family Characters (2)
Root: 巧巧
qiǎo
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
skillful, coincidentally