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:
开
9
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (开)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1kāi
Tone 2yán
Tone 3jiǎn
Tone 5
Family Characters (9)
Root: 开开
kāi
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
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