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:
赫
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 7
赫 (hè)
awe-inspiring / surname He / hertz
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (赫)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 4hè
Tone 5
Family Characters (2)
Root: 赫赫
hè
HSK 7Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
awe-inspiring / surname He / hertz