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:
约
3
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (约)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1yāo
Tone 4yào
Family Characters (3)
Root: 约约
yāo
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to weigh