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:
巩
5
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (巩)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1qiōng
Tone 2qióng
Tone 3gǒng
Family Characters (5)
Root: 巩巩
gǒng
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to secure, firm, or consolidate