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:
瓜
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4
瓜 (guā)
melon
7
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (瓜)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1guā
Tone 2hú
Family Characters (7)
Root: 瓜瓜
guā
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
melon