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:
甲
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 5
甲 (jiǎ)
first of the ten Heavenly Stems, armor, shell, or grade A
14
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (甲)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1yā
Tone 2zhá
Tone 3jiǎ
Tone 5
Family Characters (14)
Root: 甲甲
jiǎ
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
first of the ten Heavenly Stems, armor, shell, or grade A