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:
春
5
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (春)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1chūn
Tone 3chǔn
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 春春
chūn
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
old variant of 春[chun1]