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:
戈
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
戈 (gē)
dagger-axe
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (戈)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1gē
Tone 4gài
Family Characters (4)
Root: 戈戈
gē
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
dagger-axe