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:
户
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4
户 (hù)
household, door, family
8
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (户)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2lú
Tone 4hù
Family Characters (8)
Root: 户户
hù
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
household, door, family