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:
柔
4
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (柔)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2róu
Family Characters (4)
Root: 柔柔
róu
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
soft
猱
náo
Expansion(literary) a kind of gibbon; (music) wide vibrato (technique for playing the guqin 古琴[gu3 qin2]) (cf. 吟[yin2], rapid vibrato)