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:
虍
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
虍 (hū)
stripes of a tiger; "tiger" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 141)
7
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (虍)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1hū
Tone 3lǔ
Tone 5
Family Characters (7)
Root: 虍虍
hū
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
stripes of a tiger; "tiger" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 141)