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:
庚
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
庚 (gēng)
age; seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]
4
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (庚)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1gēng
Tone 5
Family Characters (4)
Root: 庚庚
gēng
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
age; seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]