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:
血
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3
血 (xiě)
blood
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (血)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1xū
Tone 3xiě
Tone 4xù
Family Characters (4)
Root: 血血
xiě
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
blood