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:
爪
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
爪 (zhuǎ)
(coll.) foot of an animal or bird; (coll.) foot supporting a cooking pot etc
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (爪)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3zhuǎ
Tone 4zhào
Family Characters (2)
Root: 爪爪
zhuǎ
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
(coll.) foot of an animal or bird; (coll.) foot supporting a cooking pot etc