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:
星
5
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (星)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1xīng
Tone 3xǐng
Family Characters (5)
Root: 星星
xīng
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
star