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:
虎
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 5
虎 (hǔ)
tiger
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (虎)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 3hǔ
Family Characters (2)
Root: 虎虎
hǔ
HSK 5Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
tiger