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:
庄
4
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (庄)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1zhuāng
Tone 4zàng
Family Characters (4)
Root: 庄庄
zhuāng
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
variant of 莊|庄[zhuang1]