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:
虑
3
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (虑)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 1shū
Tone 4lǜ
Family Characters (3)
Root: 虑虑
lǜ
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to consider, anxiety