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:
楚
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
楚 (chǔ)
distinct, clear, painful, or the Chu Kingdom/Hubei-Hunan region
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (楚)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3chǔ
Tone 5
Family Characters (2)
Root: 楚楚
chǔ
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
distinct, clear, painful, or the Chu Kingdom/Hubei-Hunan region