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:
沙
9
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (沙)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1shā
Tone 4shà
Tone 5
Family Characters (9)
Root: 沙沙
shà
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
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