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:
滕
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
滕 (téng)
vassal state of Zhou in Shandong; Teng County in Shandong
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (滕)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2téng
Family Characters (2)
Root: 滕滕
téng
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
vassal state of Zhou in Shandong; Teng County in Shandong