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:
条
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
条 (tiáo)
strip, item, article, classifier for long thin things
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (条)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2tiáo
Family Characters (4)
Root: 条条
tiáo
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
strip, item, article, classifier for long thin things