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:
某
5
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (某)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2méi
Tone 3mǒu
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 某某
mǒu
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
some, a certain