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:
石
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3
石 (shí)
stone
5
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (石)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2shí
Tone 4tà
Family Characters (5)
Root: 石石
shí
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
stone