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:
汤
3
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (汤)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1tāng
Tone 4tàng
Tone 5
Family Characters (3)
Root: 汤汤
tāng
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
soup