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:
葛
2
Family Characters
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HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (葛)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2gá
Tone 3gě
Family Characters (2)
Root: 葛葛
gě
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
surname Ge
噶
gá
Expansionphonetic ga (used in rendering Tibetan and Mongolian sounds); Tibetan Ge: language of Buddha