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:
莽
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (莽)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 3mǎng
Family Characters (3)
Root: 莽莽
mǎng
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
dense growth of grass