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:
索
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (索)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1suō
Tone 3suǒ
Family Characters (2)
Root: 索索
suǒ
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to search, demand, or large rope