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:
舀
6
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (舀)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 1tāo
Tone 3yǎo
Tone 4dào
Tone 5
Family Characters (6)
Root: 舀舀
yǎo
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to ladle out; to scoop up