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:
永
4
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (永)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3yǒng
Tone 5
Family Characters (4)
Root: 永永
yǒng
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
forever