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:
良
13
Family Characters
7
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (良)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 2liáng
Tone 3lǎng
Tone 4làng
Tone 5
Family Characters (13)
Root: 良良
liáng
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
good