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:
规
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (规)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 1guī
Family Characters (2)
Root: 规规
guī
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
compass, rule, regulation