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:
禾
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
禾 (hé)
grain plant
5
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (禾)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1jī
Tone 2hé
Tone 4qiè
Family Characters (5)
Root: 禾禾
hé
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
grain plant