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:
扌
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
扌 (shǒu)
"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc
5
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (扌)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1shū
Tone 3shǒu
Tone 4kuò
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 扌扌
shǒu
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc