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:
羊
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3
羊 (yáng)
sheep; goat
25
Family Characters
10
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (羊)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1qiāng
Tone 2yáng
Tone 3yǎng
Tone 4yàng
Tone 5
Family Characters (25)
Root: 羊羊
yáng
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
sheep; goat