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:
我
13
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (我)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 2é
Tone 3wǒ
Tone 4wò
Tone 5
Family Characters (13)
Root: 我我
wǒ
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
I, me, my