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:
总
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3
总 (zǒng)
general; overall; always; to sum up
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (总)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1cōng
Tone 3zǒng
Family Characters (2)
Root: 总总
zǒng
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
general; overall; always; to sum up