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:
能
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (能)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2néng
Tone 5
Family Characters (2)
Root: 能能
néng
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
can