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:
巨
11
Family Characters
6
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (巨)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 3jǔ
Tone 4jù
Tone 5
Family Characters (11)
Root: 巨巨
jù
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
huge, gigantic, very