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:
羽
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 5
羽 (yǔ)
feather
4
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (羽)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 3yǔ
Tone 5
Family Characters (4)
Root: 羽羽
yǔ
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
feather