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:
萧
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
萧 (xiāo)
surname Xiao; (old) Chinese mugwort
3
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (萧)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 1xiāo
Family Characters (3)
Root: 萧萧
xiāo
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Xiao; (old) Chinese mugwort