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:
曲
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (曲)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1qū
Tone 5
Family Characters (3)
Root: 曲曲
qū
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
variant of 麴|曲[qu1]