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:
车
Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 1
车 (chē)
car, vehicle, machine
4
Family Characters
2
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (车)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1chē
Tone 3zhǎn
Tone 4shè
Family Characters (4)
Root: 车车
chē
HSK 1Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
car, vehicle, machine