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:
把
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3
把 (bǎ)
to hold; handlebar; (grammatical marker)
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (把)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2pá
Tone 3bǎ
Family Characters (2)
Root: 把把
bǎ
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to hold; handlebar; (grammatical marker)