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:
束
10
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (束)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 2lá
Tone 3sǒng
Tone 4shù
Tone 5
Family Characters (10)
Root: 束束
shù
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
bundle, to bind, bunch
剌
lá
Expansionvariant of 拉[la2] (Note: 剌 was the character used prior to simplification and remains the standard in Taiwan, while in mainland China, 拉 has replaced 剌)