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:
衡
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (衡)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 2héng
Family Characters (2)
Root: 衡衡
héng
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to weigh, weight, measure