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:
狂
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (狂)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2kuáng
Tone 4guàng
Family Characters (2)
Root: 狂狂
kuáng
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
mad