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:
甾
7
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (甾)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1zāi
Tone 5
Family Characters (7)
Root: 甾甾
zāi
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
steroid nucleus