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:
母
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3
母 (mǔ)
mother
8
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (母)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2dú
Tone 3mǔ
Tone 5m
Family Characters (8)
Root: 母母
mǔ
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
mother