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:
芒
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
芒 (máng)
awn (of cereals); arista (of grain)
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (芒)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2máng
Family Characters (2)
Root: 芒芒
máng
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
awn (of cereals); arista (of grain)