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:
敖
11
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (敖)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1āo
Tone 2áo
Tone 4ào
Tone 5
Family Characters (11)
Root: 敖敖
áo
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Ao; variant of 遨[ao2]