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:
或
3
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (或)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4huò
Family Characters (3)
Root: 或或
huò
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
or, perhaps, maybe
蜮
yù
Expansion(Chinese mythology) creature that lives underwater and spits sand to make people ill