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:
絮
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (絮)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2rú
Tone 4xù
Family Characters (2)
Root: 絮絮
xù
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
cotton wadding; fig. padding