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:
末
6
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (末)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1mā
Tone 4wà
Tone 5me
Family Characters (6)
Root: 末末
me
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
variant of 麼|么[me5]