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:
弓
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
弓 (gōng)
bow (weapon), to bend
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (弓)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 1gōng
Family Characters (2)
Root: 弓弓
gōng
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
bow (weapon), to bend