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:
角
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
角 (jué)
role, compete, angle, horn
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (角)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 2jué
Tone 4què
Family Characters (4)
Root: 角角
jué
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
role, compete, angle, horn