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:
王
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4
王 (wáng)
King, monarch, or surname Wang
7
Family Characters
6
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (王)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1wāng
Tone 2wáng
Tone 3wǎng
Tone 4wàng
Family Characters (7)
Root: 王王
wáng
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
King, monarch, or surname Wang