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:
者
26
Family Characters
14
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (者)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1dū
Tone 2tú
Tone 3zhě
Tone 4zhù
Tone 5
Family Characters (26)
Root: 者者
zhě
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
one who, -er, person