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:
甬
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
甬 (yǒng)
Yong River 甬江[Yong3 Jiang1] in Ningbo 寧波|宁波[Ning2 bo1]; short name for Ningbo
15
Family Characters
8
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (甬)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1tōng
Tone 3yǒng
Tone 4tòng
Tone 5
Family Characters (15)
Root: 甬甬
yǒng
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
Yong River 甬江[Yong3 Jiang1] in Ningbo 寧波|宁波[Ning2 bo1]; short name for Ningbo