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:
胥
4
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (胥)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1xū
Tone 3xǔ
Tone 4xù
Family Characters (4)
Root: 胥胥
xū
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Xu; all