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:
戊
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
戊 (wù)
fifth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; fifth in order
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (戊)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4wù
Family Characters (2)
Root: 戊戊
wù
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
fifth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; fifth in order