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:
常
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (常)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2cháng
Family Characters (2)
Root: 常常
cháng
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
always, often, common