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:
父
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3
父 (fù)
father
3
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (父)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3fǔ
Tone 4fù
Family Characters (3)
Root: 父父
fù
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
father