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:
足
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 3
足 (jù)
excessive
5
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (足)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1zhuō
Tone 2zhuó
Tone 4jù
Family Characters (5)
Root: 足足
jù
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
excessive