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:
活
3
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (活)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2huó
Tone 4kuò
Tone 5
Family Characters (3)
Root: 活活
huó
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to live, alive, work