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:
布
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (布)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 4bù
Tone 5
Family Characters (4)
Root: 布布
bù
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
variant of 布[bu4]; to announce