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:
空
7
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (空)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1kōng
Tone 4kòng
Family Characters (7)
Root: 空空
kōng
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
empty, sky, air