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:
著
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (著)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2chú
Tone 4zhù
Family Characters (2)
Root: 著著
zhù
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to write, book, outstanding