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:
谷
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 6
谷 (gǔ)
grain
8
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (谷)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
4 Active Tones
Tone 2sú
Tone 3gǔ
Tone 4yù
Tone 5
Family Characters (8)
Root: 谷谷
gǔ
HSK 6Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
grain