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:
磨
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 6
磨 (mó)
to rub, to grind, to polish, to sharpen
3
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (磨)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2mó
Tone 4mò
Family Characters (3)
Root: 磨磨
mó
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to rub, to grind, to polish, to sharpen