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:
氵
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
氵 (shuǐ)
water radical
2
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (氵)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3shuǐ
Tone 5
Family Characters (2)
Root: 氵氵
shuǐ
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
water radical