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:
来
9
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (来)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2lái
Tone 4lài
Family Characters (9)
Root: 来来
lái
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to come