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:
豆
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4
豆 (dòu)
legume; pulse; bean; pea (CL:顆|颗[ke1],粒[li4]) (variant of 豆[dou4])
9
Family Characters
5
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (豆)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
5 Active Tones
Tone 1dēng
Tone 2chú
Tone 3duǎn
Tone 4dòu
Tone 5
Family Characters (9)
Root: 豆豆
dòu
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
legume; pulse; bean; pea (CL:顆|颗[ke1],粒[li4]) (variant of 豆[dou4])