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:
蒙
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 6
蒙 (méng)
sincere, honest, or covered/ignorant
10
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (蒙)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2méng
Tone 3měng
Tone 5
Family Characters (10)
Root: 蒙蒙
méng
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
sincere, honest, or covered/ignorant