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:
舌
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 6
舌 (jī)
tongue
11
Family Characters
6
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (舌)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1jī
Tone 2huó
Tone 3shě
Tone 4kuò
Tone 5
Family Characters (11)
Root: 舌舌
jī
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
tongue