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:
稣
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (稣)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 1sū
Family Characters (2)
Root: 稣稣
sū
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
archaic variant of 蘇|苏[su1]; to revive