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:
走
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
走 (zǒu)
to walk, to go, to leave
2
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (走)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 3zǒu
Family Characters (2)
Root: 走走
zǒu
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to walk, to go, to leave