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:
牙
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4
牙 (yá)
tooth
14
Family Characters
6
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (牙)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1yā
Tone 2yá
Tone 3yǎ
Tone 4yà
Tone 5
Family Characters (14)
Root: 牙牙
yá
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
tooth