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:
征
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4
征 (zhēng)
expedition, campaign, to journey
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (征)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1zhēng
Tone 2chéng
Family Characters (2)
Root: 征征
zhēng
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
expedition, campaign, to journey