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:
癶
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
癶 (bō)
Kangxi radical 105, known as 登字頭|登字头[deng1 zi4 tou2]
2
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (癶)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1bō
Tone 5
Family Characters (2)
Root: 癶癶
bō
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
Kangxi radical 105, known as 登字頭|登字头[deng1 zi4 tou2]