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:
追
3
Family Characters
1
HSK Words
Tone Fan-out (追)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
3 Active Tones
Tone 1duī
Tone 2chuí
Tone 4zhuì
Family Characters (3)
Root: 追追
duī
HSK 3Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)
to sculpt, to carve