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:
库
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 5
库 (kù)
warehouse, storehouse, file library
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (库)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4kù
Family Characters (2)
Root: 库库
kù
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
warehouse, storehouse, file library