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:
象
4
Family Characters
3
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (象)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4xiàng
Family Characters (4)
Root: 象象
xiàng
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
elephant, shape, form