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:
步
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (步)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4bù
Family Characters (2)
Root: 步步
bù
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
step, pace, walk