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:
康
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (康)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 1kāng
Family Characters (4)
Root: 康康
kāng
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
healthy