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:
色
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
色 (sè)
color
3
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (色)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2jué
Tone 4sè
Family Characters (3)
Root: 色色
sè
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
color