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:
矛
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 5
矛 (máo)
spear
5
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (矛)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2máo
Tone 4mào
Family Characters (5)
Root: 矛矛
máo
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
spear