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:
羞
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (羞)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1xiū
Tone 5
Family Characters (3)
Root: 羞羞
xiū
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
shy, ashamed, shame