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:
掌
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (掌)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1chēng
Tone 3zhǎng
Family Characters (2)
Root: 掌掌
zhǎng
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
palm of the hand