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:
成
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
成 (chéng)
to finish, to complete, to become, success
7
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (成)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2chéng
Tone 4shèng
Tone 5
Family Characters (7)
Root: 成成
chéng
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to finish, to complete, to become, success