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:
矦
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (矦)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2hóu
Tone 4hòu
Family Characters (2)
Root: 矦矦
hóu
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
old variant of 侯[hou2]