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:
毛
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
毛 (máo)
hair, feather, fur, wool, tenth of a yuan (jiao), surname Mao
6
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (毛)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2máo
Tone 4hào
Tone 5
Family Characters (6)
Root: 毛毛
máo
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
hair, feather, fur, wool, tenth of a yuan (jiao), surname Mao