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:
求
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
求 (qiú)
to seek / to look for / to request
6
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (求)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2qiú
Tone 4jiù
Family Characters (6)
Root: 求求
qiú
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to seek / to look for / to request