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:
戛
2
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (戛)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1gā
Tone 2gá
Family Characters (2)
Root: 戛戛
gā
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
used in 戛納|戛纳[Ga1 na4]