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:
录
8
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (录)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1bāo
Tone 4lù
Family Characters (8)
Root: 录录
lù
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to carve wood / record / register