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:
海
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (海)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1hāi
Tone 3hǎi
Family Characters (2)
Root: 海海
hǎi
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
sea