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:
张
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3
张 (zhāng)
to open up, spread, sheet of paper, classifier for flat objects
3
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (张)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1zhāng
Tone 3zhǎng
Tone 5
Family Characters (3)
Root: 张张
zhāng
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to open up, spread, sheet of paper, classifier for flat objects