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:
留
10
Family Characters
4
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (留)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1liū
Tone 2liú
Tone 5
Family Characters (10)
Root: 留留
liú
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
old variant of 留[liu2]