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:
果
15
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (果)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1kē
Tone 2huái
Tone 3guǒ
Tone 4kè
Tone 5
Family Characters (15)
Root: 果果
guǒ
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
fruit, result