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:
荒
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
荒 (huāng)
desolate, barren, uncultivated, shortage
4
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (荒)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1huāng
Tone 3huǎng
Tone 5
Family Characters (4)
Root: 荒荒
huāng
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
desolate, barren, uncultivated, shortage