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:
斿
3
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (斿)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2yóu
Tone 5
Family Characters (3)
Root: 斿斿
yóu
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
scallops along lower edge of flag