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:
越
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 2
越 (yuè)
to exceed, to surpass, the more... the more
2
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (越)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
1 Active Tones
Tone 4yuè
Family Characters (2)
Root: 越越
yuè
HSK 2Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to exceed, to surpass, the more... the more