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:
臿
4
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (臿)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1chā
Tone 4shà
Family Characters (4)
Root: 臿臿
chā
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to separate the grain from the husk