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:
考
5
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (考)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 3kǎo
Tone 4kào
Tone 5
Family Characters (5)
Root: 考考
kǎo
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to beat; to hit