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:
暴
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 6
暴 (bào)
violent, sudden, cruel, to expose
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (暴)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4bào
Family Characters (2)
Root: 暴暴
bào
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
violent, sudden, cruel, to expose