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:
旁
12
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (旁)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1pāng
Tone 2páng
Tone 3pǎng
Tone 4bàng
Tone 5
Family Characters (12)
Root: 旁旁
páng
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
side