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:
方
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
方 (fāng)
square, direction, method, side
20
Family Characters
11
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (方)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1fāng
Tone 2fáng
Tone 3fǎng
Tone 4fàng
Tone 5
Family Characters (20)
Root: 方方
fāng
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
square, direction, method, side