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:
竟
5
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (竟)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 4jìng
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 竟竟
jìng
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
unexpectedly