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:
艹
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
艹 (cǎo)
grass radical
6
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (艹)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1xiāo
Tone 2huán
Tone 3cǎo
Tone 4rè
Tone 5
Family Characters (6)
Root: 艹艹
cǎo
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
grass radical