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:
泊
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (泊)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1pō
Tone 2bó
Family Characters (2)
Root: 泊泊
pō
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
lake; Taiwan pr. [bo2]