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:
族
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3
族 (zú)
race, nationality, ethnicity, clan, social group
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (族)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2zú
Tone 4cù
Family Characters (4)
Root: 族族
zú
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
race, nationality, ethnicity, clan, social group