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:

度

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2

度 (dù)

degree, to spend, measure

Family Characters

HSK Words

How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:

2 Active Tones

Tone 2duó

Tone 4dù

Root: 度

度

dù

HSK 2

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

degree, to spend, measure

渡

dù

HSK 6

to cross

踱

duó

Expansion

to pace; to stroll; Taiwan pr. [duo4]

镀

dù

Expansion

to plate (with gold, silver etc); (prefix) -plated