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:
服
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (服)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2fú
Family Characters (2)
Root: 服服
fú
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
clothes, to serve, to obey