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:
蚤
3
Family Characters
0
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (蚤)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 3zǎo
Tone 4sào
Tone 5
Family Characters (3)
Root: 蚤蚤
zǎo
ExpansionPhonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
flea