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:
灵
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (灵)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2líng
Family Characters (2)
Root: 灵灵
líng
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
spirit / clever / effective