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:
弗
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
弗 (fú)
(literary) not; used in transliteration
15
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (弗)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2fú
Tone 4fèi
Tone 5
Family Characters (15)
Root: 弗弗
fú
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
(literary) not; used in transliteration