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:
广
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
广 (guǎng)
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7
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (广)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 3guǎng
Tone 4kuàng
Tone 5
Family Characters (7)
Root: 广广
guǎng
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
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