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:
明
3
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (明)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2míng
Family Characters (3)
Root: 明明
míng
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
bright, clear, understand