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:
路
6
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (路)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
2 Active Tones
Tone 4lù
Tone 5
Family Characters (6)
Root: 路路
lù
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
road, path, journey