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:
质
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4
质 (zhì)
quality, nature, substance, matter
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (质)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4zhì
Family Characters (2)
Root: 质质
zhì
HSK 4Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
quality, nature, substance, matter