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:
皇
12
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (皇)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2huáng
Family Characters (12)
Root: 皇皇
huáng
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
emperor