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:
幺
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
幺 (yāo)
youngest, tiny, one (digit spoken on phone), surname Yao
2
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (幺)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 1yāo
Family Characters (2)
Root: 幺幺
yāo
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
youngest, tiny, one (digit spoken on phone), surname Yao