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:
署
4
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (署)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 3shǔ
Family Characters (4)
Root: 署署
shǔ
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
office, bureau, to sign