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:
行
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
行 (háng)
row, line, profession
9
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (行)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 2háng
Tone 4xìng
Tone 5
Family Characters (9)
Root: 行行
háng
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
row, line, profession